Richard Willstätter - Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1915
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Richard Willstätter

Prize
Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1915
for his researches on plant pigments, especially chlorophyll
Citizenship
Weimar Republic Weimar Republic German Empire German Empire Nazi Germany Nazi Germany
Languages
German
date of birth
8/13/1872
place of birth
Karlsruhe
date of death
8/3/1942
place of death
Muralto
Lived
69 years
member of
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 12/31/1922
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
    • start time: 1919
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 12/1/1923
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1926
  • Academy of Sciences of Turin
    • start time: 5/15/1910
  • Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
  • Royal Society of London
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  • Austrian Academy of Sciences
  • Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
occupation
  • chemist
  • university teacher
educated at
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
work location
  • Munich
employer
  • Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • University of Zurich
  • Kaiser Wilhelm Society
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
  • ETH Zurich
doctoral student
  • Richard Kuhn
  • Antonio Madinaveitia
  • Jakub Karol Parnas
  • Emile Cherbuliez
field of work
  • physical chemistry
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