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Georg Wittig

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Georg Wittig 1897-1987, German chemist, Ph.D. Univ. of Marburg, 1926. During his career, Wittig was a professor at the universities of Braunschweig, Freiburg, Tübingen, and Heidelberg. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Herbert C. Brown for his discovery of a class of compounds, ylides, that substantially facilitate the synthesis of certain organic compounds. Author not available, WITTIG, GEORG. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more

Herbert Charles Brown
...professor at Wayne State Univ. (1943-47) and Purdue Univ. (1947-78), he shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Georg Wittig . Brown developed boron-containing compounds as important reagents in organic synthesis. These organoborones provided... Read more

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	Herbert C. Brown Nobel-Winn ... ; ...20th-century giant in the field of organic chemistry. In 1979, he shared the Nobel Prize for chemistry with German chemist Georg Wittig of the University of Heidelberg for work with boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds. He held dozens of U.S. patents... Read more
	Nobel callings // The university's ranks yield 61 winners of the prestigious prize ; ...Physics, 1967 Konrad Bloch, Physiology or Medicine, 1964, with Feodor Lynen Herbert C. Brown, Chemistry, 1979, with Georg Wittig James McGill Buchanan, Economic Sciences, 1986 Alexis Carrel, M.D., Physiology or Medicine, 1912 Owen Chamberlain, Physics... Read more
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