Awards & Winners

Victor Grignard

Date of Birth 06-May-1871
Place of Birth Cherbourg-Octeville
(Lower Normandy, Manche)
Nationality France
Profession Chemist
François Auguste Victor Grignard was a Nobel Prize-winning French chemist. Grignard was the son of a sail maker. After studying mathematics at Lyon he transferred to chemistry and discovered the synthetic reaction bearing his name in 1900. He became a professor at the University of Nancy in 1910 and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1912. During World War I he studied chemical warfare agents, particularly the manufacture of phosgene and the detection of mustard gas. His counterpart on the German side was another Nobel Prize winning Chemist, Fritz Haber.

Awards by Victor Grignard

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1912


Nobel Prize in Chemistry
(for the discovery of the so-called Grignard reagent, which in recent years has greatly advanced the progress of organic chemistry.)