The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1979

Herbert C. Brown

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Prize share: 1/2

Georg Wittig

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Prize share: 1/2

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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