Grignard, François Auguste Victor
(1871~1935)
He is an
organic chemist, born in
Cherbourg, NW
France. He studied
chemistry at
Lyon, and became professor there in 1919. He introduced the use of
organo-magnesium compounds (called Grignard
reagents), which form the basis of the most valuable class of organic synthetic reactions, for which he shared the
Nobel Prize for
Chemistry in 1912.