Chemistry

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Swedish 5 oktober 2005 har beslutat utdela Nobelpriset i kemi år 2005 gemensamt till Yves Chauvin Institut Français du Pétrole, Rueil-Malmaison, Frankrike, Robert H. Grubbs California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA och Richard R. Schrock Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA “för utveckling av metates-metoden inom organisk syntes”. Metates – en…

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Biographical

I was born on 10 October 1930 in Menin (Menen in Flemish) in western Flanders, on the border between Belgium and France. My parents were French. To be more precise, they were not only both from the Tours region, but also descended from long-established families in the little village of Beaumont-la-Ronce. I used to spend…

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Biographical

ORIGINSAccording to an article in The Times of Israel (issue of Dec. 9, 2012) by Mark Schulte, Dr. (co-recipient of this year’s Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences) and I share two attributes with thirty-three other Nobel Laureates. We are Jewish and we were educated in New York City public high schools. This article further highlights…

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