German chemist whose method of synthesizing olefins (alkenes) from carbonyl compounds is a reaction often termed the Wittig synthesis. For this achievement he shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Wittig was born in Berlin and studied at Kassel and Marburg. He was
professor at Freiburg 1937-44, Tubingen 1944-56, and Heidelberg 1956-67. |
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