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Paul Karrer
Born(1889-04-21)21 April 1889
Moscow, Russia
Died18 June 1971(1971-06-18) (aged 82)
Zürich, Switzerland
NationalitySwiss
Alma materOld Cantonal School Aarau (Matura)
University of Zurich (PhD)
Known forVitamins
AwardsMarcel Benoist Prize (1922)
Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1937)
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
InstitutionsUniversity 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.

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1930, Paul Karrer elucidated the correct structure for beta-carotene, the main precursor of vitamin A, and identified other carotenoids. Karrer and Norman...

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were two Nobel Prize winners, Henry Hallett Dale and Paul Karrer. The institute was renamed Paul Ehrlich Institute in Ehrlich's honour in 1947. In 1914...

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carbohydrates and vitamin C". The prize was shared with Swiss chemist Paul Karrer for his work on other vitamins. Haworth worked out the correct structure...

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1979 2016 Sold in 2016 at Heritage Auctions for $274,000 with Wittig's Paul Karrer Gold Medal from Universitat Zurich, the Otto Hahn Prize for Chemistry...

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New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-19-829579-0. Maddrell, Paul: Spying on Science: Western Intelligence in Divided Germany 1945–1961. Oxford...

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Retinol

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soluble" in 1918 and later "vitamin A" in 1920. In 1931, Swiss chemist Paul Karrer described the chemical structure of vitamin A. Retinoic acid and retinol...

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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;...

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elucidated its structure in 1938 and shortly afterward the same year, Paul Karrer and his team first synthesized it. Nearly 50 years after the discovery...

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vertebrates and invertebrates. In 1967, she and George Wald shared the Paul Karrer Gold Medal for their work in this area. In the late 1960s, her interests...

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International Prize in Science, the Welch Award, the Arthur C. Cope Award, the Paul Karrer Gold Medal, the Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy, the National Academy...

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Léon Rosenfeld (additional participants) H. Casimir, J. Cockroft, P. Dee, Paul Dirac, Ferretti, O. Frisch, Oskar Klein, Leprince-Ringuet, Lise Meitner,...

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Physiology or Medicine, 1949 Paul Hermann Müller, Physiology or Medicine, 1948 Hermann Hesse, born in Germany, Literature, 1946 Paul Karrer, Chemistry, 1937 Albert...

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University of Zurich

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O. Lawrence Award (1998) The Franklin Medal (United States) (1998) Paul Karrer Gold Medal (1998) Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1999) Order of the Nile...

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chemical structure of vitamin E. It was synthesised the same year by Paul Karrer. Oxford University closed down its nutrition department after World War...

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