Herbert C. Brown
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1979.
Born: 22, May, 1912, London, United Kingdom
Died: 19, Dec, 2004, Lafayette IN, USA
Prize motivation: "for their development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds respectively into important reagents in organic synthesis"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Purdue University, West Lafayette IN, USA
Prize share: 1/2