Richard Martin Willstätter

Richard Martin Willstätter, Nobel Laureate

Born: 1872-08-13 in Karlsruhe, Germany

Gender: male

Field: German chemist (1872–1942)

Biography

Richard Martin Willstätter FRS(For) HFRSE was a German organic chemist whose study of the structure of plant pigments, chlorophyll included, won him the 1915 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

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Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1915

Awarded on: 1915-11-11

"for his researches on plant pigments, especially chlorophyll"

Affiliations:

  • Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut (now Max-Planck Institut) für Chemie – Berlin-Dahlem, Germany
  • Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität – Berlin, Germany
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