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Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the say-it-ten-times-fast dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2005 has been jointly awarded to Robert H. Grubbs (California Institute of Technology), Richard R. Schrock (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and Yves Chauvin (Institut Français du Pétrole) for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis." Advanced [PDF] and supplementary [PDF] information is also available from the Nobel Prize site.

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  1. Re:Embarassed of a Nobel prize? by DeeSnider · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That article was kind of sad to me. The guy seemed still in grief from his wife's death, and annoyed that 30 years after the fact tons of reporters started knocking on his door practically unannounced. Can't say I blame him. I wouldn't want that kind of sudden publicity now, much less at 74 for something I did half my life ago.

  2. Re:dupe by MagikSlinger · · Score: 3, Insightful
    for [frak]'s sake, do we have to read this twice? it was dull the first time round!

    <sarcasm style="dripping">
    I'm sorry today's omelette wasn't to your taste. Maybe tomorrow they'll talk about Halo and Doom 3 instead! That'd be more interesting, right?
    </sarcasm>

    --
    The bitter lessons of a veteran coder: http://bitterprogrammer.blogspot.com
  3. Not meant to be a lifetime achievement award by 200_success · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Actually, according to Alfred Nobel's will and the statutes of the Nobel Foundation, the prizes are meant to be awarded rather promptly:

    The interest... shall be annually distributed in the form of prizes to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit to mankind.

    Granted, the passage of time is often necessary for the relative importance of a work to become apparent, since bold new ideas tend to be controversial and cannot be appreciated without hindsight.