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Paul Karrer
Born
(1889-04-21)21 April 1889
Moscow, Russia
Died
18 June 1971(1971-06-18) (aged 82)
Zürich, Switzerland
Nationality
Swiss
Alma mater
Old Cantonal School Aarau (Matura) University of Zurich (PhD)
Known for
Vitamins
Awards
Marcel Benoist Prize (1922) Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1937)
Scientific career
Fields
Chemistry
Institutions
University of Zurich
Professor Paul Karrer FRS FRSE FCS (21 April 1889 – 18 June 1971) was a Swiss organic chemist best known for his research on vitamins. He and Norman Haworth won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1937.
Professor PaulKarrer FRS FRSE FCS (21 April 1889 – 18 June 1971) was a Swiss organic chemist best known for his research on vitamins. He and Norman Haworth...
The PaulKarrer Gold Medal and Lecture is awarded annually or biennially by the University of Zurich to an outstanding researcher in the field of chemistry...
Felix Karrer (1825–1903), Austrian geologist Josef Karrer (born 1939), German handball player Karl Karrer (1815–1886), Swiss politician PaulKarrer (1889–1971)...
1930, PaulKarrer elucidated the correct structure for beta-carotene, the main precursor of vitamin A, and identified other carotenoids. Karrer and Norman...
were two Nobel Prize winners, Henry Hallett Dale and PaulKarrer. The institute was renamed Paul Ehrlich Institute in Ehrlich's honour in 1947. In 1914...
carbohydrates and vitamin C". The prize was shared with Swiss chemist PaulKarrer for his work on other vitamins. Haworth worked out the correct structure...
1979 2016 Sold in 2016 at Heritage Auctions for $274,000 with Wittig's PaulKarrer Gold Medal from Universitat Zurich, the Otto Hahn Prize for Chemistry...
New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-19-829579-0. Maddrell, Paul: Spying on Science: Western Intelligence in Divided Germany 1945–1961. Oxford...
Prize 1928) Carotenoids, studied by PaulKarrer (Nobel Prize 1937) Vitamins, studied among others by PaulKarrer, Adolf Windaus, Robert R. Williams, Norman...
soluble" in 1918 and later "vitamin A" in 1920. In 1931, Swiss chemist PaulKarrer described the chemical structure of vitamin A. Retinoic acid and retinol...
(d. 1978) 1889 – Marcel Boussac, French businessman (d. 1980) 1889 – PaulKarrer, Russian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971) 1889...
their Nobel Prize while in prison or detention. Two Nobel laureates, Jean-Paul Sartre (Literature, 1964) and Lê Ðức Thọ (Peace, 1973), declined the award;...
elucidated its structure in 1938 and shortly afterward the same year, PaulKarrer and his team first synthesized it. Nearly 50 years after the discovery...
vertebrates and invertebrates. In 1967, she and George Wald shared the PaulKarrer Gold Medal for their work in this area. In the late 1960s, her interests...
International Prize in Science, the Welch Award, the Arthur C. Cope Award, the PaulKarrer Gold Medal, the Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy, the National Academy...
Léon Rosenfeld (additional participants) H. Casimir, J. Cockroft, P. Dee, Paul Dirac, Ferretti, O. Frisch, Oskar Klein, Leprince-Ringuet, Lise Meitner,...
Physiology or Medicine, 1949 Paul Hermann Müller, Physiology or Medicine, 1948 Hermann Hesse, born in Germany, Literature, 1946 PaulKarrer, Chemistry, 1937 Albert...
1930, PaulKarrer elucidated the correct structure for beta-carotene, the main precursor of vitamin A, and identified other carotenoids. Karrer and Norman...
plant pigments (beta-carotene) and vitamin A. In 1931, Swiss chemist PaulKarrer described the chemical structure of vitamin A. Retinoic acid and retinol...
Osborn (died 1981), American philanthropist and eugenicist. April 21 – PaulKarrer (died 1971), Swiss winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry. May 18 – Thomas...
plutonium oxide Jerome Karle (1918–2013), 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry PaulKarrer (1889–1971), 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner...
country Natalie Grams, German physician, author and science communicator Paul Herrling (Ph.D. 1975), Swiss head of corporate research, professor Albert...
technical innovator Stefan Janos (born 1943), low temperature physicist PaulKarrer (1889–1971), 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Emil Theodor Kocher (1841–1917)...
chemical structure of vitamin E. It was synthesised the same year by PaulKarrer. Oxford University closed down its nutrition department after World War...