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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1973
Ernst Otto Fischer, Geoffrey Wilkinson

Ernst Otto Fischer - Facts

Ernst Otto Fischer

Ernst Otto Fischer

Born: 10 November 1918, Munich, Germany

Died: 23 July 2007, Munich, Germany

Affiliation at the time of the award: Technical University, Munich, Federal Republic of Germany

Prize motivation: "for their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds"

Field: Inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry

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