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Richard Willstätter

German chemist (1872–1942)

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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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Born
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Place of birth
Karlsruhe wd
Died
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Place of death
Muralto wd
Citizenship
German Empire, Weimar Republic wd
Occupation
university teacher, chemist wd
Education
LMU Munich wd
Spouse
Sophie Leser wd

Awards wd

  • Faraday Lectureship Prize (1927)
  • Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order (1924)
  • Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1915)
  • Willard Gibbs Award (1933)
  • Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1925)
  • Adolf-von-Baeyer Gold Medal (1914)
  • honorary doctor of the University of Manchester
  • Davy Medal (1932)
  • honorary doctor of ETH Zürich
  • Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1928)
  • honorary doctorate of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt
  • honorary doctor of the University of Halle-Wittenberg
  • Bressa Prize (1907)
  • Goethe Medal for Art and Science (1932)
  • honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (1910)

Questions

When was Richard Willstätter born?
Richard Willstätter was born on 13 August 1872 in Karlsruhe.
Where did Richard Willstätter study?
Richard Willstätter was educated at LMU Munich.

Sources

  1. Wikipedia (English): Richard Willstätter · CC BY-SA 4.0
  2. Wikidata item Q77072 · CC0 1.0
  3. Image: Richard Willstätter.jpg by Unknown author Unknown author (Public domain)

Last updated · facts checked 15 November 2026

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