biography
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Willstätter, Richard
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pronunciation:
[vilshteter]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1872–1942)
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| biography:
| Organic chemist, born in Karlsruhe, SW Germany. He studied at Munich University, and became professor at Zürich (1905–12). He did notable work on natural product chemistry, especially on plant pigments (for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1915) and on medicinal chemicals, and he developed effective gas masks in World War 1. He became professor at Munich in 1916, but increasing anti-Semitism made his position difficult, and he resigned his chair in 1925 in protest. The rise of Nazi power forced him to flee, and he reached Switzerland in 1939. |
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