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Robert H. Grubbs
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Robert H. Grubbs

1942 – 2021 · aged 79

Nobel prize winning American chemist (1942-2021)

Born
27 Feb 1942 · Possum Trot
Died
19 Dec 2021 · Duarte

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 91 years
  1. 27 Feb 1942BornBorn in Possum Trot
  2. 1988AwardAmerican Chemical Society Award in Organometallic Chemistry
  3. 1995AwardACS Award in Polymer Chemistry
  4. 1997AwardNagoya Gold Medal
  5. 2000AwardBenjamin Franklin Medal
  6. 2000AwardHerman Mark Award in Polymer Chemistry
  7. 2001AwardPrelog Medal and Lecture
  8. 2002AwardArthur C. Cope Award
  9. 2002AwardTolman Award
  10. 2003AwardClarivate Citation Laureates
  11. 2003AwardLinus Pauling Award
  12. 2003AwardTetrahedron Prize
  13. 2004AwardCentenary Prize
  14. 19 Dec 2021DiedDied in Duarte

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1942 – 2021).

  1. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  2. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  3. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  4. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  5. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  6. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  7. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  8. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  9. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  10. 1956Suez Crisis
  11. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  12. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  13. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  14. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  15. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  16. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  17. 1968Prague Spring
  18. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  19. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  20. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  21. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  22. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  23. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  24. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  25. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  26. 1985Schengen Agreement
  27. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  28. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  29. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  30. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  31. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  32. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  33. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  34. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  35. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  36. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  37. 20062006 FIFA World Cup
  38. 20082008 Summer Olympics
  39. 2008Russo-Georgian War
  40. 20102010 Haiti earthquake

Biography

Robert Howard Grubbs ForMemRS (February 27, 1942 – December 19, 2021) was an American chemist and the Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. He was a co-recipient of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on olefin metathesis.

Grubbs was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2015 for developments in catalysts that have enabled commercial products.

He was a co-founder of Materia, a university spin-off startup to produce catalysts.

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