The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1923
Awarded on: 1923-11-13
"for his invention of the method of micro-analysis of organic substances"
Affiliations:
- Graz University – Graz, Austria
Fritz Pregl
Born: 1869-09-03 in Laibach, Austria-Hungary (now Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Gender: male
Field: Slovene-Austrian Nobel prize laureate and scientist
Biography
Fritz Pregl, was a Slovenian-Austrian chemist and physician from a mixed Slovene-German-speaking background. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1923 for making important contributions to quantitative organic microanalysis, one of which was the improvement of the combustion train technique for elemental analysis.