Georg Wittig - Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1979
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Georg Wittig

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: Herbert C. Brown
Citizenship
Germany Germany
Languages
German
date of birth
6/16/1897
place of birth
Berlin
date of death
8/26/1987
place of death
Heidelberg
Lived
90 years
member of
  • Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
    • start time: 1956
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
    • start time: 1962
  • Sturmabteilung
  • French Academy of Sciences
  • Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
employer
  • University of Tübingen
    • end time: 1956
    • start time: 1944
  • TU Braunschweig
  • Heidelberg University
  • University of Freiburg
  • University of Marburg
work location
  • Heidelberg
  • Marburg
  • Freiburg im Breisgau
  • Tübingen
doctoral student
  • Ulrich Schöllkopf
educated at
  • University of Tübingen
  • University of Marburg
field of work
  • mathematics
  • chemistry
occupation
  • mathematician
  • chemist
  • university teacher
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