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more general categories information about this item 10. Noble Prize 10. Noble Prize Chemistry (180) 11. Award Year 11. Award Year 1970s (104) 1979 (11) 12. Winner Type 12. Winner Type Person (904) 13. Gender 13. Gender Male (853) 14. Birth Year 14. Birth Year 1890s (65) 1897 (11) 15. Place of Birth 15. Place of Birth Europe (459) Europe, central (101) Germany (84) Berlin (10) 16. Death Year 16. Death Year 1980s (66) 1987 (8) 17. Place of Death 17. Place of Death Europe (331) Europe, central (62) Germany (56) Heidelberg (6) 19. Given Name 19. Given Name E-K (339) G (55) 20. Family Name 20. Family Name S-Z (212) W (44) 21. Shared Given Name 21. Shared Given Name E-K (229) G (35) Georg (3) 23. Religion 23. Religion z-Missing value reason (465) Source data not available (465) 24. Age at Award Time 24. Age at Award Time 80 - 89 (56) 83 (6) 32. Occupations 32. Occupations Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations (601) Physical Scientists (333) Chemists and Materials Scientists (111) Chemists (111) 34. Citizens 34. Citizens Europe (450) Europe, central (117) Germany (98) 37. Worked for College or University 37. Worked for College or University Europe (232) Europe, central (70) Germany (64) Heidelberg (7) University of Heidelberg (7) 42. Affilliation with College or University 42. Affilliation with College or University Europe (535) Europe, central (165) Germany (154) Freiburg (21) University of Freiburg (21) Long-term academic staff (7) Heidelberg (27) University of Heidelberg (27) Long-term academic staff (10) Marburg (10) University of Marburg (10) Alumni (6) Tübingen (11) University of Tübingen (11) Alumni (6) Long-term academic staff (5) 44. Memberships 44. Memberships A-D (656) B (102) Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (67) E-P (571) F (89) French Academy of Sciences (89) G (195) German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (179) H (88) Heidelberg Academy for Sciences and Humanities (28) 45. Other Awards 45. Other Awards A-B (362) A (285) Adolf-von-Baeyer Gold Medal (7) C-D (404) D (194) Dannie-Heineman-Preis (7) G-H (389) G (254) Great Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (23) K-L (297) K (173) Karl Ziegler Prize (3) O-P (364) O (205) Otto Hahn Prize for Chemistry and Physics (3) complete name: Georg Wittig nobel prize: chemistry award year: 1979 together with: Herbert C. Brown prize share: Prize share: 1/2 rational: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1979 was awarded jointly to Herbert C. Brown and Georg Wittig "for their development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis." biography: Biography laureate facts: Facts laureate lecture: Lecture given name: Georg family name: Wittig occupation: chemist occupation: university teacher field of work: chemistry work location: University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany description: 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. image copyright: Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. image citation: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1979. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1979/summary/> date birth: 1897 date death: 1987 usual name: Georg Wittig
