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.