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