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Born October 10, 1930 • Belgium
Died January 27, 2015 (aged 84) • Tours • France
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2005)
Subjects Of Study metathesis
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Richard R. Schrock
American chemist
Robert H. Grubbs
Robert H. Grubbs
American chemist
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Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French chemist and physicist
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Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist
Portrait of Professor Henri Boris Kagan wearing glasses, a dark jacket, striped tie, and light blue shirt.
Henri B. Kagan
French chemist
Sauvage, Jean-Pierre
Jean-Pierre Sauvage
French chemist
Moissan, 1906
Henri Moissan
French chemist
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Paul Sabatier
French chemist
Jean-Marie Lehn
Jean-Marie Lehn
French chemist
Victor Grignard.
Victor Grignard
French chemist
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
Wilhelm Ostwald.
Wilhelm Ostwald
German chemist
Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling
American scientist
Frederick Sanger, 1993
Frederick Sanger
British biochemist
Haber
Fritz Haber
German chemist
Langmuir, Irving
Irving Langmuir
American chemist
Walther Nernst
Walther Nernst
German chemist
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Harold C. Urey
American chemist
Alfred Werner
Alfred Werner
Swiss chemist

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