Yves Chauvin:
Yves Chauvin is a French biochemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
October 10, 1930 in Menin, France
Claim to Fame:
Chauvin is a French organic chemist who shares the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with with Robert H. Grubbs and Richard R. Schrock for their development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis. Chauvin described how metathesis reactions function and the types of metal compounds that act as catalysts for the reactions. Metathesis is an organic reaction that redistributes the bonds of similar interacting chemicals so the products' bonding affiliations are identical or similar to the reactants. It is used to create pharmaceuticals and petroleum polymers with less waste and byproducts.
