Geoffrey Wilkinson:
Geoffrey Wilkinson was an English chemist who studied organometallic compounds.
Birth:
July 14, 1921 in Springside, Yorkshire, England
Death:
September 26, 1996 in London, England
Claim to Fame:
Geoffrey Wilkinson shares the 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Ernst Otto Fischer for their independent pioneering work with organometallic compounds. He worked on compounds with transition metal complexes and catalysts to hydrogenate alkenes into alkanes. He also identified the structure of the sandwich compound, ferrocene.
