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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1979

Herbert C. Brown, Georg Wittig

Herbert C. Brown
Georg Wittig

Herbert C. Brown

Georg Wittig

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"

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