Victor Villiger

Victor Villiger (1 September 1868 – 10 June 1934) was a Swiss-born German chemist and the discoverer of the Baeyer-Villiger oxidation.

He studied at the University of Geneva. Following his graduation, he began his doctoral studies with Adolf von Baeyer at the University of Munich.

He started working at BASF in Ludwigshafen in 1905.

• K. A. Hofmann (1934). "Victor Villiger". Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft. 67 (8): A111–A116. doi:10.1002/cber.19340670838.

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