Richard Willstätter
German chemist
Died when: 69 years 355 days (839 months)Star Sign: Leo
Richard Martin Willstätter FRS(For) HFRSE (German pronunciation: [ˈʁɪçaʁt ˈvɪlˌʃtɛtɐ], 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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