The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1973
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Ernst Otto Fischer
Prize share: 1/2
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Geoffrey Wilkinson
Prize share: 1/2
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1973 was awarded jointly to Ernst Otto Fischer and Geoffrey Wilkinson "for their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds"
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