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Georg Wittig
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German chemist (1979 Nobel Prize)
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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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry1979
“for their development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Georg
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Berlin
- Place of death
- Heidelberg
- Occupation
- mathematician
- Educated at
- University of Marburg
- Employer
- University of Marburg
- Political party
- Nazi Party
- Languages spoken
- German
- Doctoral advisor
- Karl von Auwers
- Field of work
- mathematics
- Work location
- Marburg
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- Commons category
- Georg Wittig
- date of birth
- 1897-06-16
- date of death
- 1987-08-26
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- name in native language
- Georg Wittig
- interested in
- chemistry
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Biography
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