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The
physical chemist Sir
Cyril Hinshelwood was born in London in 1897 and died there in
1967. In 1956 he shared the Nobel
Prize for Chemistry with the Soviet Nikolai Semenov for his research
into kinetics.
In
1912 the American chemist Herbert
C. Brown was born in London as Herbert Brovarnika and two years
later in 1914 his family emigrated to America. In 1979 he shared the
Nobel
Prize for Chemistry with the German Georg Wittig for their work
on organic synthesis.
The
biochemist A.J.P.
Martin was born as Archer John Porter Martin in London in 1910.
In 1952 he shared the Nobel
Prize for Chemistry with R.L.M. Synge for their research into
protein structure.
A.J.P.
Martin
The
chemist Sir
Geoffrey Wilkinson died in London in 1996. In 1973 he had shared
the Nobel
Prize for Chemistry with the German Ernst Fischer.
Sir
Geoffrey Wilkinson  |
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