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" One of the most rewarding aspects of my research has been the opportunity to study the potential applications of a new catalyst. "
Robert H. Grubbs
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" As a child, I was always interested in building things. Instead of buying candy, I would purchase nails, which I used to construct things out of scrap wood. My mother always claimed that my spending my money on nails instead of on candy was why I was so skinny as a kid. "
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" I was born at home in rural Kentucky, in 1942, in a house that my father Howard had built. He did most of the construction himself and built it on land that his father had given him when he married my mother Faye. "
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" Polymer chemistry provides an excellent means of studying metathesis catalysts: miniscule catalyst loadings have the capacity to generate large amounts of polymeric material, the structure of which can provide a historical record of catalyst activity. "
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" Catalysts are the conductors who choreograph the chemical dance that results in the formation of new structures. "
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