Geoffrey Wilkinson
Born in Manchester, Greater ManchesterBorn on 14th of July 1921
Died on 26th of September 1996
Born 1921. Died 1996 - English chemist and Nobel Prize winner.
Studied at Imperial College, London. During WWII worked on atomic bomb project with National Research Council of Canada. Co-authored pioneering textbook Advanced Inorganic Chemistry (1962). Elected FRS in 1965, knighted in 1976 and shared Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1973.
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