Milton Orchin
Milton Orchin · Science & Medicine
Organic chemist known for hydroformylation and organometallic chemistry
1914, Barnesboro, Pennsylvania, United States — 2013, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
United States
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Milton Orchin was an American organic chemist and professor at the University of Cincinnati, known for pioneering work on hydroformylation (the oxo process) and organometallic chemistry, and for widely used textbooks on organic and coordination chemistry. He spent his childhood in the Jewish Orphan Home in Cleveland and later co-authored a biography of Israeli chemist Ernst David Bergmann. His Jewish background is documented.
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Organic chemist known for hydroformylation and organometallic chemistry
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