Victor Villiger (1 September 1868 – 10 June 1934) was a Swiss-born German chemist and the discoverer of the Baeyer-Villiger oxidation.
Life Villiger studied at the University of Geneva. Following his graduation, he began his doctoral studies with Adolf von Baeyer at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
He started working at BASF in Ludwigshafen in 1905.
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