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Georg Wittig

Georg Wittig
Georg Wittig, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)

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.

16 June 1897

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