Paul Karrer - Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1937
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Paul Karrer

Prize
Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1937
for his investigations on carotenoids, flavins and vitamins A and B2
Together with: Norman Haworth
Citizenship
Switzerland Switzerland
Languages
German
date of birth
4/21/1889
place of birth
Moscow
date of death
6/18/1971
place of death
Zurich
Lived
82 years
employer
  • University of Zurich
    • end time: 1959
    • start time: 1919
position held
  • rector
    • start time: 1950
    • end time: 1952
member of
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 5/1/1947
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 7/15/1948
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1945
  • Academy of Sciences of Turin
    • start time: 2/28/1940
  • Académie Nationale de Médecine
  • Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
  • French Academy of Sciences
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  • Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
educated at
  • University of Zurich
occupation
  • university teacher
  • chemist
  • biochemist
field of work
  • organic chemistry
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