Victor Grignard, in full François-Auguste-Victor Grignard (May 6, 1871 in Cherbourg – December 13, 1935 in Lyon) was a Nobel Prize-winning French chemist. In 1898, while a student under Philippe Barbier at Lyon, Grignard began his prize winning work with a study of the alkylzinc compounds developed earlier bySir Edward Frankland. It was Barbier who had Grignard repeat some experiments on …
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