Richard Kuhn - Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1938
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Richard Kuhn

Prize
Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1938
for his work on carotenoids and vitamins
Citizenship
Cisleithania Cisleithania West Germany West Germany Nazi Germany Nazi Germany
Languages
German
date of birth
12/3/1900
place of birth
Vienna
date of death
7/31/1967
place of death
Heidelberg
Lived
66 years
educated at
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
    • start time: 1919
  • University of Vienna
    • start time: 1918
member of
  • Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
    • start time: 1931
  • Japan Academy
    • start time: 12/12/1958
  • Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1937
  • Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
    • start time: 1938
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
    • start time: 1936
  • Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
  • German Academy of Sciences at Berlin
employer
  • ETH Zurich
    • start time: 1925
  • Heidelberg University
    • start time: 1929
doctoral student
  • Friedrich Bär
  • Herbert Zimmermann
field of work
  • biochemistry
  • chemistry
occupation
  • chemist
  • university teacher
  • biochemist
  • physician
work location
  • Heidelberg
position held
  • professor
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