Possum Trot is an unincorporated community in Marshall County, Kentucky, United States.[1] Possum Trot is located on U.S. Route 62 between Paducah and Calvert City in the Jackson Purchase region of Western Kentucky.
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Coordinates: 37°0′20″N 88°25′50″W / 37.00556°N 88.43056°W | |
Country | United States |
State | Kentucky |
County | Marshall |
Elevation | 348 ft (106 m) |
Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CST) |
GNIS feature ID | 501168[1] |
Possum Trot has been noted for its unusual place name.[2]
Robert H. Grubbs, ForMemRS (February 27, 1942 – December 19, 2021) was an American chemist and the Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. He was a co-recipient of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on olefin metathesis.[3]