Herbert C. Brown
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1979for their development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesisTogether with: Georg Wittig
- Citizenship
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United States
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
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- doctoral student
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- Frederick R. Jensen
- Yoon Nung-min
- employer
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- University of Chicago
- Purdue University
- Wayne State University
- occupation
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- writer
- chemist
- university teacher
- educated at
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- University of Chicago
- Malcolm X College
- Wilbur Wright College
- member of
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- National Academy of Sciences
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- field of work
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- organic chemistry