Geoffrey Wilkinson
1921-1996
Scottish chemist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on organo-metallic compounds. Wilkinson originally studied nuclear chemistry under the tutelage of G...
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Geoffrey Wilkinson is best known for establishing the structure of a "sandwich molecule" he called ferrocene. In sandwich compounds a metal atom is the "filling" between two "slices" which are flat, t...
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Geoffrey Wilkinson was born on July 14, 1921, in Yorkshire, England, to Henry and Ruth Crowther Wilkinson. It was an uncle, the owner of a small chemical company in the town of Todmorden, who encourag...
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Geoffrey Wilkinson
Geoffrey Wilkinson
Geoffrey Wilkinson