Geoffrey Wilkinson (1921-1996)
British chemist born in Todmorden, Yorkshire, professor at Imperial College London. In 1952, at Harvard, he proposed with Robert B. Woodward the “sandwich” structure of ferrocene, which opened up the organometallic chemistry of the transition metals.
In 1965–1966 he and his co-workers discovered the complex RhCl(PPh3)3, Wilkinson’s catalyst, the first practical homogeneous catalyst for alkene hydrogenation. He received the 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, with Ernst Otto Fischer, for his work on “sandwich” compounds.
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