Herbert C. Brown - Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1979
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Herbert C. Brown

Prize
Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1979
for their development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis
Together with: Georg Wittig
Citizenship
United States United States United Kingdom United Kingdom
Languages
English
date of birth
5/22/1912
place of birth
London
date of death
12/19/2004
place of death
West Lafayette
Lived
92 years
doctoral student
  • Frederick R. Jensen
  • Yoon Nung-min
employer
  • University of Chicago
  • Purdue University
  • Wayne State University
occupation
  • writer
  • chemist
  • university teacher
educated at
  • University of Chicago
  • Malcolm X College
  • Wilbur Wright College
member of
  • National Academy of Sciences
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
field of work
  • organic chemistry
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