Artturi Ilmari Virtanen

Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Nobel Laureate

Born: 1895-01-15 in Helsinki, Russian Empire (now Finland)

Gender: male

Field: Finnish chemist and professor

Biography

Artturi Ilmari Virtanen was a Finnish chemist and recipient of the 1945 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his research and inventions in agricultural and nutrition chemistry, especially for his fodder preservation method".

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Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1945

Awarded on: 1945-11-15

"for his research and inventions in agricultural and nutrition chemistry, especially for his fodder preservation method"

Affiliations:

  • University of HelsinkiHelsinki, Finland