CHEMIST

Georg Wittig

1897 - 1987

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Georg Wittig (German: [ˈɡeː.ɔʁk ˈvɪ.tɪç] ; 16 June 1897 – 26 August 1987) was a German chemist who reported a method for synthesis of alkenes from aldehydes and ketones using compounds called phosphonium ylides in the Wittig reaction. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Herbert C. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georg Wittig has received more than 117,880 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Georg Wittig is the 122nd most popular chemist (up from 177th in 2019), the 669th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,000th in 2019) and the 30th most popular German Chemist.

Georg Wittig is most famous for his discovery of the Wittig reaction, which is a chemical reaction that converts an aldehyde or ketone into an alkene.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Georg Wittig ranks 122 out of 602. Before him are Archer Martin, Vincent du Vigneaud, Gerhard Ertl, Ernst Otto Fischer, Manfred Eigen, and Robert Burns Woodward. After him are Avram Hershko, Johan Gadolin, Clara Immerwahr, Dan Shechtman, Jean-Marie Lehn, and Ignacy Mościcki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Georg Wittig ranks 36. Before him are Karl Gebhardt, Ivan Bagramyan, Otto Strasser, Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Hasso von Manteuffel, and Plaek Phibunsongkhram. After him are Karl-Otto Koch, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, Patrick Blackett, Kirill Meretskov, Vlado Chernozemski, and Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Among people deceased in 1987, Georg Wittig ranks 27. Before him are Jascha Heifetz, Lino Ventura, Lee Byung-chul, Lee Marvin, Jacqueline du Pré, and John Huston. After him are Jacques Anquetil, Jean Anouilh, Andrés Segovia, Joseph Campbell, Nobusuke Kishi, and Jaco Pastorius.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Georg Wittig ranks 669 out of 7,253. Before him are Maurice de Saxe (1696), Karl Carstens (1914), Werner von Haeften (1908), Otto Grotewohl (1894), Manfred Eigen (1927), and Berti Vogts (1946). After him are August Macke (1887), Pavlo Skoropadskyi (1873), Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria (1636), Wilhelmine Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1673), Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805), and Ernst Mayr (1904).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Georg Wittig ranks 30. Before him are Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743), Felix Hoffmann (1868), Fritz Strassmann (1902), Gerhard Ertl (1936), Ernst Otto Fischer (1918), and Manfred Eigen (1927). After him are Joachim Frank (1940), Georg Ernst Stahl (1659), Johann Deisenhofer (1943), Robert Huber (1937), Ernst Chain (1906), and August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818).

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