Prof Richard Martin Willstätter FRS(For) HFRSE (13 August 1872 – 3 August 1942) 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 independently of Mikhail Tsvet.
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13 August 1872 Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany
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Died |
3 August 1942 (aged 69) Muralto, Locarno, Switzerland
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Zodiac | Leo |
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