Curt Wittig

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Curt Wittig (born September 14, 1943 in Chicago ) is an American chemist.

Wittig studied electrical engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago (1961 to 1964) and then at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1966 and his doctorate in 1970. As a post-doctoral student , he was at the University of Southern California (USC) in the electrical engineering department and at the University of Cambridge (1971/72) and the University of California, Berkeley , where he began to research chemistry, to which he began came about the development of gas lasers (continuous carbon monoxide laser). From 1973 he was at USC, first in the electrical engineering department (with a professorship from 1979) and later in chemistry. He holds the Paul A. Miller Chair.

He was a Bourke Lecturer at the Royal Society of Chemistry , received the 1993 Herbert P. Broida Prize from the American Physical Society for pioneering work in the development of photoinduced reactions in weakly bound systems for the study of oriented reactions in the molecular framework, and his major contributions in the field of unimolecular "state-to-state" reactions . Wittig is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Physical Society (1980).

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  1. Laudation: For his pioneering work in developing the field of photoinitiated reactions in weakly-bonded species to study aligned / oriented reactions in the molecular frame and his seminal contributions to the field of state-to-state unimolecular reactions , entry at Broida Prize