Georg Wittig Ph.D.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1979
Nobel co-recipient Herbert C. Brown

Organic Chemist. Development of use of phosphorus into important reagents in organic synthesis. Wittig reaction. Mentored 300 graduate students, post-docs; provided close supervision for crucial experiments.

"Chemical research and mountaineering similar. To reach goal/summit, initiative, perseverance required. After hard work, great joy to be at goal/peak with its splendid panorama..."

Hobbies

Georg Wittig had an interest in Fine Arts. He stated humorously in his Nobel Lecture that "the excursion from diyls to ylides now ends at my idyll. With this I mean the conclusion of my research work as an emeritus, which allowed me to continue my work as a chemist free from the obligations of a teacher and finally to devote myself completely to my intere