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Richard Willstätter

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Gender Male
Death81 years ago
Date of birth August 13,1872
Zodiac sign Leo
Born Karlsruhe
Germany
Date of died August 3,1942
DiedMuralto
Switzerland
BooksProblems and Methods in Enzyme Research
NationalityGerman
Job Chemist
Education Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Current partner Sophie Leser
Children Margarete Willstätter
Awards Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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Richard Martin Willstätter FRS HFRSE 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 following the initial description of the separation technique by Mikhail Tsvet.

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