biography
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Grignard, (François Auguste) Victor
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pronunciation:
[greenyah(r)]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1871–1935)
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| biography:
| Organic chemist, born in Cherbourg, NW France. He studied chemistry at Lyon, and became professor there in 1919. He introduced the use of organo-magnesium compounds (Grignard reagents), which form the basis of the most valuable class of organic synthetic reactions, for which he shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1912. |
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