Georg Wittig
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1979.
Born: 16, Jun, 1897, Berlin, Germany
Died: 26, Aug, 1987, Heidelberg, West Germany (now Germany)
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: University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Prize share: 1/2