Georg Wittig:
Georg Wittig was a German chemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
June 16, 1887 in Berlin, Germany
Death:
August 26, 1997 in Heidelberg, West Germany
Claim to Fame:
Wittig was a German chemist who was awarded half the 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work with organic phosphorus compounds. He found that phosphorus ylides could be used as a catalyst to change aldehyde or ketone into an alkene and a triphenylphosphine oxide. This reaction is known as the Wittig reaction.
