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Ernst Otto Fischer
Full Name of the recipient | Ernst Otto Fischer |
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Award | Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
Year of Award | 1973 |
Share in Award | 50.0% |
Award Shared with | Geoffrey Wilkinson (50.0%) |
Motivation for the Award | for their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds |
Affiliation at the Time of Award | Technical University, Munich, Federal Republic of Germany |
Place of Birth | Munich, Germany DEU |
Date of Birth | 10 November 1918 |
Age at the time of Award | 54 years |
Place of Death | Munich, Germany DEU |
Date of Death | 23 July 2007 |