Richard Willstätter

**Richard Willstätter**
Richard Willstätter
Born	Richard Martin Willstätter; 13 August 1872; Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany
Died	3 August 1942 (aged 69); Muralto, Locarno, Switzerland;
Nationality	Germany
Fields	Physical chemistry
Institutions	University of Munich ; ETH Zürich ; University of Berlin; Kaiser Wilhelm Institute
Alma mater	University of Munich
Doctoral advisor	Alfred Einhorn, Adolf von Baeyer
Known for	Organic chemistry
Notable awards	Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1915); Faraday Lectureship Prize (1927); Davy Medal (1932); Willard Gibbs Award (1933); Fellow of the Royal Society

Richard Martin Willstätter, ^[1] (13 August 1872 – 3 August 1942) was a German organic chemist. Her study of the structure of plant pigments, chlorophyll. It won him the 1915 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.^[2]^[3]

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Robinson, R. (1953). "Richard Willstätter. 1872-1942". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 8 (22): 609–626. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1953.0021 .
↑ Allen, W. A.; Gausman, H. W.; Richardson, A. J. (1973). "Willstätter-Stoll Theory of Leaf Reflectance Evaluated by Ray Tracing". Applied Optics 12 (10): 2448–2453. doi:10.1364/AO.12.002448 . PMID 20125799 .
↑ Dées De Sterio, A. (1967). "Richard Willstätter, 25th anniversary of his death (25 September 1942)". Munchener medizinische Wochenschrift (1950) 109 (39): 2018–2019. PMID 4874034 .

Richard Willstätter

Born	Richard Martin Willstätter 13 August 1872 Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany
Died	3 August 1942(1942-08-03) (aged 69) Muralto, Locarno, Switzerland
Nationality	Germany
Fields	Physical chemistry
Institutions	University of Munich ETH Zürich University of Berlin Kaiser Wilhelm Institute
Alma mater	University of Munich
Doctoral advisor	Alfred Einhorn, Adolf von Baeyer
Known for	Organic chemistry
Notable awards	Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1915) Faraday Lectureship Prize (1927) Davy Medal (1932) Willard Gibbs Award (1933) Fellow of the Royal Society^[1]