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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1979

"for their development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis"
Herbert C. Brown Georg Wittig
Herbert C. Brown Georg Wittig
half 1/2 of the prize half 1/2 of the prize
USA Federal Republic of Germany
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN, USA		 University of Heidelberg
Heidelberg, Federal Republic of Germany
b. 1912
(in London, United Kingdom)
d. 2004		 b. 1897
d. 1987
 
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