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.

16 June 1897

Born on the same birth day (16 June): Albert Chartier • Bianca Andreescu • Danny Burstein • Ernst Otto Schlick • George Gaylord Simpson • Henry Perenara • Joseph Solomon Delmedigo • Max Delbrück (chemist) • Murray Leinster • Odion Ighalo • Phil Mickelson • Phil Vischer • Robbie Kerr (Australian cricketer) • Roberto Durán • Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah • Ulrike Tauber • Yang Jisheng (Ming dynasty)

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