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Georg Wittig
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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Born 16 June 1897 · Died 26 August 1987 · Q77171
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1987· 1 entry
Died 1987-08-26.
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1979· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for their development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1979).
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1975· 1 entry
Awarded Karl Ziegler Prize (1975).
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1973· 1 entry
Awarded Roger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry (1973).
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1967· 1 entry
Awarded Otto Hahn Prize for Chemistry and Physics (1967).
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1965· 1 entry
Awarded Dannie Heineman Prize (1965).
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1957· 1 entry
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1957).
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1956· 1 entry
And the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1979
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1953· 1 entry
Won Adolf-von-Baeyer Gold Medal (1953).
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1944· 1 entry
Succeeded the head of the organic chemistry department Wilhelm Schlenk at the University of Tübingen
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1937· 1 entry
Hermann Staudinger offered Wittig a position at the University of Freiburg, partly because he knew Wittig from his book on stereochemistry in which he supported Staudinger's highly criticized theory of macromolecules
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1931· 1 entry
Wittig married Waltraud Ernst, a colleague from the Auwers working group
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1897· 1 entry
Born 1897-06-16.
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