The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1979
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Herbert C. Brown
Prize share: 1/2
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Georg Wittig
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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