The 2000 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry presented to Rober H. Grubbs

The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, awarded the 2000 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry to Robert H. Grubbs for his wide ranging seminal contributions to greatly advance and expand the field of olefin metathesis, a unique carbon–carbon bond breaking/making process, that has enormously added to the chemistʹs capabilities at making a broad range of drugs and other useful complex molecules, improved rubbers, and plastics for laboratory and commercial applications.