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Born November 10, 1918 • Munich • Germany
Died July 23, 2007 (aged 88) • Munich • Germany
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1973)
Subjects Of Study organometallic compound
Wilkinson's catalyst
Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson
British chemist
Wilhelm Ostwald.
Wilhelm Ostwald
German chemist
Haber
Fritz Haber
German chemist
Walther Nernst
Walther Nernst
German chemist
Ziegler
Karl Ziegler
German chemist
Emil Fischer.
Emil Fischer
German chemist
Otto Hahn
Otto Hahn
German chemist
Joachim Frank
German-American biochemist
Hell, Stefan
Stefan Hell
Romanian-born German chemist
Hermann Staudinger.
Hermann Staudinger
German chemist
Butenandt, Adolf
Adolf Butenandt
German biochemist
Benjamin List
German chemist
Kurt Alder.
Kurt Alder
German chemist
Richard Willstätter
German chemist
Gerhard Herzberg
Canadian physicist
Baeyer, 1905
Adolf von Baeyer
German chemist
Hans Fischer
German biochemist
Wallach
Otto Wallach
German chemist
Robert Huber
German biochemist
Manfred Eigen
German physicist

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