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Robert H. Grubbs

1942 - 2021

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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 university spin-off startup to produce catalysts. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert H. Grubbs is the 204th most popular chemist (up from 279th in 2019), the 1,106th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,764th in 2019) and the 50th most popular American Chemist. Learn more about Robert H. Grubbs's academic impact at Rankless.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Robert H. Grubbs ranks 204 out of 602. Before him are Clara Immerwahr, Arthur Kornberg, Herbert C. Brown, Wallace Carothers, Donald J. Cram, and Jean-Baptiste Dumas. After him are Robert F. Furchgott, Georg Ernst Stahl, Karl Barry Sharpless, Alan MacDiarmid, James Dewar, and Roald Hoffmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Robert H. Grubbs ranks 74. Before him are Sandro Mazzola, Arto Paasilinna, Neil Kinnock, Emmerson Mnangagwa, Vladimír Mečiar, and Tobin Bell. After him are Hissène Habré, Martin Seligman, Françoise Dorléac, Wolfgang Schäuble, Carlos Reutemann, and Junichiro Koizumi. Among people deceased in 2021, Robert H. Grubbs ranks 43. Before him are Karolos Papoulias, DMX, Nawal El Saadawi, Colin Bell, Jorge Sampaio, and Antony Hewish. After him are Hissène Habré, Robert Mundell, Toshihide Maskawa, Carlos Reutemann, Sonny Chiba, and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert H. Grubbs ranks 1,106 out of 20,380. Before him are Timothy McVeigh (1968), Robert Crippen (1937), Francis Peyton Rous (1879), Marla Maples (1963), John Cassavetes (1929), and Marilyn vos Savant (1946). After him are Geena Davis (1956), Percival Lowell (1855), Robert Whittaker (1920), Gloria Swanson (1899), Tori Amos (1963), and Lawrence Klein (1920).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Robert H. Grubbs ranks 50. Before him are Richard R. Schrock (1945), Julius Axelrod (1912), Paul L. Modrich (1946), Arthur Kornberg (1918), Wallace Carothers (1896), and Donald J. Cram (1919). After him are Robert F. Furchgott (1916), Karl Barry Sharpless (1941), Paul Lauterbur (1929), Stanley Miller (1930), James B. Conant (1893), and Walter Gilbert (1932).

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