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
GermanyGermany
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
occupation
  • university teacher
  • mathematician
  • chemist
field of work
  • chemistry
  • mathematics
educated at
  • University of Tübingen
  • University of Marburg
employer
  • Heidelberg University
  • University of Tübingen
    • start time: 1944
    • end time: 1956
  • University of Freiburg
  • University of Marburg
  • TU Braunschweig
work location
  • Freiburg im Breisgau
  • Heidelberg
  • Tübingen
  • Marburg
member of
  • Sturmabteilung
  • French Academy of Sciences
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
    • start time: 1962
  • Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
  • Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
    • start time: 1956
doctoral student
  • Ulrich Schöllkopf
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