IAS@NTU Lee Kong Chian Distinguished Professor Public Lecture 8 Dec 2026

"My Unlikely Journey to the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Beyond

Beyond Biofuels: How a Nobel Prize-Winning Catalyst Converts Common Rapeseed Oil into High-Value Green Chemicals

This lecture will describe the highlights of how Prof Schrock became a chemist, an MIT professor, and a 2005 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry.  You will also learn what he discovered and how his research ultimately came to be commercialised this year on a large scale, 60 years after its discovery, and why.

Join Nobel Laureate Prof Richard Schrock as he shares his path from early laboratory breakthroughs at MIT to the recent commercialisation of the world’s first commercial-scale ethenolysis plant in Germany.

More About Prof Richard Schrock [here]