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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1973

"for their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds"
Ernst Otto Fischer Geoffrey Wilkinson
Ernst Otto Fischer Geoffrey Wilkinson
half 1/2 of the prize half 1/2 of the prize
Federal Republic of Germany United Kingdom
Technical University
Munich, Federal Republic of Germany		 Imperial College
London, United Kingdom
b. 1918
d. 2007		 b. 1921
d. 1996
 
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