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10/5/2005
Catalysis and the 2006 Nobel Prize in chemistry


Updated: 12:08 p.m. ET Oct. 5, 2005
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Americans Robert H. Grubbs and Richard R. Schrock and Yves Chauvin of France won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for discoveries that let industry create drugs and advanced plastics in a more efficient and environmentally friendly way.

The trio won the award for their development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis — a way to swap groups of atoms between molecules that the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences likened to a dance in which couples change partners.

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