Richard Willstätter

Chemist, Academic

1872 – 1942

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Who was Richard Willstätter?

Richard Martin Willstätter, ForMemRS was a German organic chemist whose study of the structure of plant pigments, chlorophyll included, won him the 1915 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Willstätter invented paper chromatography independently of Mikhail Tsvet.

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Born
Aug 13, 1872
Karlsruhe
Also known as
  • Richard Willstatter
Ethnicity
  • Jewish people
Nationality
  • Germany
Profession
Education
  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Employment
  • ETH Zurich
Lived in
  • Germany
Died
Aug 3, 1942
Muralto

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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