
What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 1973, lived here from 1926 to 1943.
Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson was a British chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1973 for his work on organometallic compounds, particularly the discovery of ferrocene, which significantly advanced the field of transition metal chemistry.
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