photo Yves Chauvin

Yves Chauvin

Prize: Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 2005

for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis

Together with: Richard R. Schrock , Robert H. Grubbs

Citizenship: France
Languages: French
date of birth: 10/10/1930
place of birth: Menen
date of death: 1/27/2015
place of death: Tours
Lived: 84 years

occupation: chemist
researcher
educated at: École supérieure de chimie physique électronique de Lyon
employer: French Institute of Petroleum
member of: French Academy of Sciences

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