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Georg Wittig was a German chemist who developed a powerful chemical reaction, now called the Wittig reaction, that revolutionized how scientists synthesize organic compounds. He won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this discovery, which remains widely used in laboratories and industry today for creating molecules with specific structures.
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Georg Wittig ( German: [ˈɡeː.ɔʁk ˈvɪ.tɪç] ; 16 June 1897 – 26 August 1987) 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.
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1897 births1987 deaths20th-century German chemistsAcademic staff of Marburg UniversityAcademic staff of the University of FreiburgAcademic staff of the University of TübingenAcademic staff of TU BraunschweigGerman Nobel laureatesGerman organic chemistsGrand Crosses with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of GermanyMarburg University alumni