The American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced that five Nobel laureates have research that will be presented this week during the ACS' 244th National Meeting & Exposition. Research from the laureates' teams will be among 8,600 presentations during the event, expected to attract more than 14,000 scientists and others.
The Nobel laureates are Dr. Robert H. Grubbs, Dr. Richard R. Schrock, Dr. Stanley B. Prusiner, Dr. George A. Olah, Dr. Alan J. Heeger and Dr. Mario J. Molina. Grubbs, who is with the California Institute of Technology, and Schrock, who is with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, shared the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Yves Chauvin for the development of the "metathesis method." Prusiner, who is with the University of California, San Francisco, won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of prions. Olah, who is with the University of Southern California, won the 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on ‘carbocations,’ charged molecules that were considered too unstable to study.
Heeger, who is with the University of California, Santa Barbara, shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Dr. Alan G. MacDiarmid and Dr. Hideki Shirakawa for the revolutionary discovery that plastics, after certain modifications, can conduct electricity. Molina, who is with the University of California, San Diego, shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Dr. F. Sherwood Rowland and Dr. Paul J. Crutzen for discovering that substances called CFCs in aerosol spray cans and other products were destroying the ozone layer.
