Wittig is a surname, and may refer to:
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Burghardt Wittig (born 1947), German biochemist
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Curt Wittig, American chemist
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David Wittig David Wittig (born July 29, 1955) is the former chief executive officer of Topeka, Kansas-based Westar Energy, a utility company.
Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Wittig became a Wall Street investment banker.
In 1995, Wittig, having earned millio ...
(born 1955), American executive
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Edward Wittig
Edward Wittig (September 20, 1879 – March 3, 1941) was a Polish sculptor and university professor, notable for designing many monuments in Warsaw.
Born in Warsaw, Wittig went on to study art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under the ...
(1879–1941), Polish sculptor
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Ferdinand Wittig
Ferdinand Wittig (October 20, 1851 – April 17, 1909) was an American merchant, farmer, and politician.
Born in Holby, Sjotland, Denmark, Wittig emigrated to the United States, in 1872, and settled in New Denmark, Brown County, Wisconsi ...
(1851-1909), American politician
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Georg Wittig
Georg Wittig (; 16 June 1897 – 26 August 1987) was a German chemist who reported a method for synthesis of alkenes from aldehydes and ketones using compounds called phosphonium ylides in the Wittig reaction. He shared the Nobel Prize in ...
(1897–1987), German chemist
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Iris Wittig
Iris Wittig (9 April 1928, Lengefeld – 30 September 1978) was a German military pilot. She was the first, and only, female fighter pilot in the East German Air Force.
Biography
Wittig was born in Erzgebirge on 9 April 1928. From 1935 to 19 ...
(1928-1978), German military pilot
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Johnnie Wittig (1914–1999), former Major League pitcher
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Martin C. Wittig (born 1964), German CEO
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Michael Wittig
Michael Richard Wittig (born August 21, 1976) is an American Christian musician who is best known as " Kalel", the current bass player for the Dove Awards winning and Grammy nominated Christian hard rock band Pillar. After ten years of playi ...
(born 1976), American musician
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Monique Wittig
Monique Wittig (; July 13, 1935 – January 3, 2003) was a French author, philosopher and feminist theorist who wrote about abolition of the sex-class system and coined the phrase "heterosexual contract". Her seminal work is titled '' The Strai ...
(1935–2003), French author and feminist theorist
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Peter Wittig (born 1954), German diplomat
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Rüdiger Wittig (born 1946), German professor of geobotany and ecology
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Sigmar Wittig (born 1940), German Chair of the European Space Agency
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Susan Wittig Albert
Susan Wittig Albert, also known by the pen names Robin Paige and Carolyn Keene, is an American mystery writer from Vermilion County, Illinois, United States. Albert was an academic and the first female vice president of Southwest Texas State Un ...
(born 1940), American mystery writer
See also
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Wittich
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Wittig River
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1,2-Wittig rearrangement
A 1,2-Wittig rearrangement is a categorization of chemical reactions in organic chemistry, and consists of a 1,2-rearrangement of an ether with an alkyllithium compound. The reaction is named for Nobel Prize winning chemist Georg Wittig.
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2,3-Wittig rearrangement
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Wittig reaction
The Wittig reaction or Wittig olefination is a chemical reaction of an aldehyde or ketone with a triphenyl phosphonium ylide called a Wittig reagent. Wittig reactions are most commonly used to convert aldehydes and ketones to alkenes. Most ...
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