Curt Franklin Wittig is a Professor of Chemistry and the holder of the Paul A.
Miller Chair in the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences at the University of Southern California (USC).
Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Curt Wittig received his B.S.
and Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois in 1970.
Post-doctoral work (EE at USC, Chemistry at Cambridge (UK) and UC Berkeley) was followed by a faculty appointment in 1973 at USC in the EE Department.
After becoming a professor in 1979, his interests changed, and he moved to the Chemistry and Physics Departments in 1981, settling eventually in the Chemistry Department, where he has specialized in physical chemistry (chemical physics) ever since.
Wittig and his wife, Michele, live in Santa Monica, California.