Chemical Dancing: Chemists choreograph molecular moves for Nobel honor

This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to three scientists for their work on a versatile strategy for synthesizing all manner of novel chemical compounds in an environmentally friendly way.

Yves Chauvin of the French Petroleum Institute in Rueil–Malmaison, Richard R. Schrock of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Robert H. Grubbs of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena will share the nearly $1.3