When associate chemistry professor Sonbinh Nguyen heard the announcement on the radio at 5:30 a.m., he ran to his computer to double-check the details.
On Oct. 5, his Ph.D. advisor of five years won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the project they had worked on together when Nguyen was a graduate student. The project was Nguyen’s doctoral thesis.
The 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to three men, one of them being Dr. Robert H. Grubbs, Nguyen’s former advisor. Each man helped develop metathesis, a major step in green chemistry that can now enable plastics manufacturing and drug research to be cleaner, cheaper and more efficient.
Working under Grubbs at the California Institute of Technology, Nguyen helped prepare the first molecules that formed the basis of the technology.
“He was an outstanding student who worked hard and made many contributions to my research program,” Grubbs said in an e-mail interview.
Applications of the technology came later, Nguyen said. It was initially developed as an academic curiosity.
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