Yves Chauvin was a French chemist and Nobel Prize laureate. He was honorary research director at the Institut français du pétrole and a member of the French Academy of Sciences. He was known for his work for deciphering the process of olefin metathesis for which he was awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Robert H. Grubbs and Richard R. Schrock. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2005, announced October 5, 2005. Yves Chauvin, Robert H. Grubbs, and Richard R. Schrock, “for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis”. Yves Chauvin: born 1930, Menin, Belgium. Robert H. Grubbs: born 1942, Possum Trot, KY, USA. Richard R. Schrock: born 1945, Berne, IN, USA. Wiki link Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).