Geoffrey Wilkinson

Geoffrey Wilkinson

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1973

Imperial College London

“for their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds”

Geoffrey Wilkinson was a British chemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering work on the chemistry of organometallic sandwich compounds. He was affiliated with Imperial College when awarded.

Field
Chemistry · Organometallic Chemistry
Lifespan
1921–1996