Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson

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gptkbp:almaMater gptkb:Imperial_College_London
gptkbp:award gptkb:Nobel_Prize_in_Physics
gptkbp:awardYear 1973
gptkbp:birthDate 1921-07-14
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Todmorden,_West_Yorkshire,_England
gptkbp:category gptkb:Fellows_of_the_Royal_Society
20th-century British chemists
Nobel laureates in Chemistry
People from Todmorden
gptkbp:deathDate 1996-09-26
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:London,_England
gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor gptkb:Henry_Eyring
gptkbp:editor gptkb:Advanced_Inorganic_Chemistry_(with_F._Albert_Cotton)
gptkb:Comprehensive_Coordination_Chemistry
gptkbp:education gptkb:Imperial_College_London
gptkbp:employer gptkb:Harvard_University
gptkb:Imperial_College_London
gptkb:Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology
gptkb:University_of_California,_Berkeley
gptkbp:field inorganic chemistry
gptkbp:fullName gptkb:Geoffrey_Wilkinson
gptkbp:honor gptkb:Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society
gptkb:Knight_Bachelor
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson
gptkbp:knownFor gptkb:Wilkinson's_catalyst
organometallic chemistry
work on transition metal complexes
gptkbp:memberOf gptkb:Royal_Society
gptkbp:nationality British
gptkbp:NobelPrizeSharedWith gptkb:Ernst_Otto_Fischer
gptkbp:notableStudent gptkb:Alwyn_Davies
gptkb:Lesley_Yellowlees
gptkb:Malcolm_Green
gptkbp:notableWork Wilkinson's catalyst (chlorotris(triphenylphosphine)rhodium(I))
gptkbp:occupation chemist
gptkbp:publishedIn Wilkinson, G. (1965). The Chemistry of the Transition Elements.
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Lise_Schmidt
gptkbp:title Sir
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