Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson FRS was a Nobel laureate English chemist who pioneered inorganic chemistry and homogeneous transition metal catalysis. Wikipedia
Born: July 14, 1921, Todmorden, United Kingdom
Died: September 26, 1996 (age 75 years), London, United Kingdom
Notable students: F. Albert Cotton, Gregory S. Girolami, Malcolm Green, and more
Education: Imperial College London (1946)
Known for: Homogeneous transition metal catalysis
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