François Auguste Victor Grignard:
Victor Grignard was a French chemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
May 6, 1871 in Cherbourg, France
Death:
December 13, 1935 in Lyon, France
Claim to Fame:
Grignard was a French chemist who was awarded half the 1912 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of the Grignard reagent that advanced organic chemistry of the time. Grignard reagents are alkyl- or aryl-magnesium halides used in organometallic chemical reactions (Grignard reactions). Grignard reactions are useful for preparing organic compounds from smaller precursor molecules.
