Geoffrey Wilkinson - Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1973
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Geoffrey Wilkinson

Prize
Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1973
for their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds
Together with: Ernst Otto Fischer
Citizenship
United Kingdom United Kingdom
Languages
English
date of birth
7/14/1921
place of birth
Todmorden
date of death
9/26/1996
place of death
London
Lived
75 years
member of
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1975
  • Royal Society of London
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
occupation
  • university teacher
  • non-fiction writer
  • chemist
doctoral student
  • Richard A. Jones
  • Alan Davison
  • F. Albert Cotton
field of work
  • inorganic chemistry
employer
  • Imperial College London
educated at
  • Imperial College London
notable work
  • organometallic chemistry
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