October 6, 2005 - "Father of Axens’ Technologies Awarded Nobel"
On 5 October 2005, the Royal Swedish Academy of Science awarded Yves Chauvin the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Dr. Chauvin, Honorary Research Director at the French Institute of Petroleum (IFP) is the author of numerous scientific articles and technical patents. Dr. Chauvin is a member of the French Academy of Sciences (1996) and the recipient of numerous other awards including the Prix Clavel-Lespiau of the French Academy of Sciences (1990) and the Karl Engler Medal (1994) of the German Scientific Society for Coal and Petroleum Research. Dr. Chauvin is the principal inventor of several leading commercial olefin processes developed by IFP and licensed by Axens including the Alphabutol process for the selective dimerization of ethylene to 1-butene and the Dimersol process for the dimerization of propylene to hexenes. Both of these homogeneous catalytic processes have been the leading technologies in their fields for over two decades.
