Herbert C. Brown and Georg Wittig

Our chemists of the week are Herbert C. Brown and Georg Wittig. We are studying some of their work this week . They jointly won the Nobel Prize in chemstry in 1979.

To see pictures of H.C. Brown and Georg Wittig please go to....
http://nobel.sdsc.edu/laureates/chemistry-1979.html

A biography in English on Georg Wittig is at the following web address....
http://nobel.sdsc.edu/laureates/chemistry-1979-2-cv.html

A more detailed biography in French can be found at
http://www.multimania.com/xjarnot/Chimistes/Wittig.html
I can barely remember my French, but I could follow sections of it.

An autobiography by HC Brown can be found at
http://nobel.sdsc.edu/laureates/chemistry-1979-1-autobio.html

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