Richard Willstätter
German chemist
Richard Martin Willstätter FRS HFRSE 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 following the initial... Wikipedia
Born: August 13, 1872, Karlsruhe, Germany
Died: August 3, 1942 (age 69 years), Muralto, Switzerland
Children: Margarete Willstätter
Education: Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Awards: Fellow of the Royal Society, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1915), Faraday Lectureship Prize (1927), and more
Partner: Sophie Leser