Richard Schrock Nobel Prize Winner

Richard Schrock in his office at Massachusetts Institute of Technology after learning that he is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his contribution to the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis. Schrock will share the Nobel Prize with Yves Chauvin of the Institut Francais du Petrole in France, and Robert Grubbs of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). (Photo by Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images)