Robert Grubbs
Robert Grubbs
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2005
Nobel co-recipients: Yves Chauvin, Richard R. Schrock
“for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis.”
Nobel Prize Cash and Philanthropy
Kurt Wuthrich, a Swiss scientist who has worked in the US was awarded half of the Chemistry Nobel Prize cash of a total of about a million dollars.
Robert H. Grubbs stated at the time the Nobel Prize was awarded to him, that he did not know as to what he would do with the prize money. He stated that he would keep the money safely, for example in a bank and he would certainly be thinking about the same.