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Three share chemistry Nobel Prize

06 October 2005

With news that Yves Chauvin, Richard Schrock and Robert Grubbs have received the 2005 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their work on a reaction process known as metathesis, Professor Laurence Harwood (Chemistry) explains why the three men deserved the award.

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