What is Richard R. Schrock?
[[File:R. Schrock 2012.jpg|thumb|Richard Schrock in 2012]] {{Nobelprize|Chemistry}}'''Richard Royce Schrock''' (born on [[January 4]], [[1945]]) is an [[Americans|American]] [[Professor]] of [[Chemistry]]. He was awarded the [[Nobel Prize]] for [[chemistry]] in [[2005]] for his work on the [[metathesis reaction]] used in [[organic chemistry]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2005/|title=The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2005|publisher=Nobelprize.org}}</ref> Professor Schrock was born in [[Berne, Indiana]], and went to Mission Bay High School in [[San Diego, California]]. He was given a [[B.A.]] [[Degree (school)|degree]] in [[1967]] from the [[University of California, Riverside]] and a [[Ph.D.]], in [[1971]], from [[Harvard University]]. At Harvard he was a student of [[J. A. Osborn]]. Between 1971 and 1972, he studied at the [[University of Cambridge]] with Lord [[Jack Lewis, Baron Lewis of Newnham|Jack Lewis]]. In [[1972]], he began working for [[George Parshall]] in the [[DuPont Experimental Station|Experimental Station]] of the [[E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company]] in [[Wilmington, Delaware]]. He joined the [[faculty]] of the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] in [[1975]] and became a [[professor]] in [[1980]].<ref name=autobiog>{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2005/schrock-autobio.html|title=Richard R. Schrock - Autobiography|publisher=Nobelprize.org}}</ref> Schrock now works as the [[Frederick G. Keyes]] Professor of Chemistry, at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] ([[MIT]]). He has worked there since [[1989]]. Schrock is a member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]], [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]] and was elected to the Board of Overseers of Harvard University in 2007. He married Nancy Carlson in 1971 and has two children, Andrew and Eric. Nancy Schrock is the [[Thomas F. Peterson, Jr.]] Conservator of Special Collections for the MIT Libraries. The