[AdmSmith]

Yves Chauvin, born 1930 (74 years), French citizen. Directeur de Research Honoreur, Institut Français du Pétrole, Rueil-Malmaison, France.

Robert H. Grubbs, born 1942 (63 years) in Calvert City, KY, USA (US citizen). PhD in chemistry in 1968 from Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. Victor and Elisabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA.

Richard R. Schrock, born 1945 (60 years) in Berne, IN, USA (US citizen). PhD in chemistry in 1971 from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. Frederick G. Keyes Professor of Chemistry at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA.

[AdmSmith]

2/3 to the land of free.

[adam_az]

Better living through chemistry! :)

[RightWhale]

New word--metathesis

Really an old word in a new job.

[Jack of all Trades]

It's interesting that very often, real genius can express itself in terms of common analogies that are understandable to people outside the particular field of interest. "An exchange of partners in a dance", beautiful.