Robert Grubbs

Robert Howard Grubbs ForMemRS (February 27, 1942 – December 19, 2021) was an American chemist and the Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. He was a co-recipient of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on olefin metathesis. Grubbs was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2015 for developments in catalysts that have enabled commercial products. He was a co-founder of Materia, a universi