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Georg Wittig, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1987)
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Georg Wittig
German chemist (1897–1987)
Georg Wittig was a German chemist who reported a method for synthesis of alkenes from aldehydes and ketones using compounds called phosphonium ylides in the Wittig reaction. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Herbert C. Brown in 1979.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
One of the five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)