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Georg Wittig

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German chemist (1979 Nobel Prize)

GermanyScientistsLived 1897 to 1987 · aged 90
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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.

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1979Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1975Karl Ziegler Prize
1973Roger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry
1967Otto Hahn Prize for Chemistry and Physics
1965Dannie Heineman Prize
1957doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris
1953Adolf-von-Baeyer Gold Medal
Great Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

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K. Alex MüllerAlso won Dannie Heineman PrizeManfred EigenAlso won Otto Hahn Prize for Chemistry and PhysicsGerhard ErtlAlso won Karl Ziegler PrizeRichard KuhnAlso won Adolf-von-Baeyer Gold MedalRyōji NoyoriAlso won Roger Adams Award in Organic ChemistryJerome KarleAlso won Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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Country
Germany
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1897 to 1987 · aged 90
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32 languages

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