Organic chemist Georg Wittig's investigations led him to discover in 1953 a chemical process for synthesizing complex compounds such as vitamin A, vitamin D derivatives, steroids, and biological pesticides. Because of this process, known as the Wittig...

George Wittig is the German chemist famous for discovering a method for synthesizing alkenes from carbonyl compounds. Born in Berlin, Germany on June 16, 1897, as a youth Wittig was educated at the Wilhelms-Gymnasium. He entered the University of...

1897-1987 German chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1979 for studies of a family type of organic molecules containing phosphorus, called ylides, that he discovered. Ylides are used in an organic chemical process known as the...

Georg Wittig (June 16, 1897 – August 26 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...

Georg Wittig, 90, the German scientist who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing a method of synthesizing compounds widely used in the pharmaceutical industry, died Wednesday in Heidelberg, West Germany. Dr. Wittig was an emeritus professor at Heidelberg University. The...

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