Herbert Charles Brown:
Herbert Charles Brown was an Anglo-American chemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
May 22, 1912 in London, England
Death:
December 19, 2004 in Lafayette, Indiana
Claim to Fame:
Brown was an Anglo-American chemist who was awarded half the 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of organoborane chemistry. Organoboranes are organic compounds which have boron and hydrogen together and are used in many transformation reactions.
