Robert H. Grubbs

Robert H. Grubbs was an American chemist renowned for developing olefin metathesis catalysts, earning the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry alongside Richard R. Schrock and Yves Chauvin. He served as the Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry at Caltech from 1978 until his death, after earlier faculty positions at Michigan State University. His work revolutionized organic and polymer synthesis, leading to commercial applications through startups like Materia.[1][2][3]