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Victor Grignard

Scientist · born May 6, 1871 · died 1935

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François Auguste Victor Grignard was a French chemist who won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the eponymously named Grignard reagent and Grignard reaction, both of which are important in the formation of carbon–carbon bonds.

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  1. ~41Received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry1912

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