George Wittig
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....
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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 pesti...
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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 Wi...
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George Wittig
Georg Wittig
George Wittig