The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1973
Awarded on: 1973-10-23
"for their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds"
Affiliations:
- Imperial College – London, United Kingdom
Geoffrey Wilkinson
Born: 1921-07-14 in Todmorden, United Kingdom
Gender: male
Field: English chemist and Nobel prize winner (1921–1996)
Biography
Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson FRS was a Nobel laureate English chemist who pioneered inorganic chemistry and homogeneous transition metal catalysis.