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Richard Martin Willstätter

* 1872 in Karlsruhe/Germany
* 1942 in Muralto, Tessin/Switzerland

   

Richard Martin
                Willstätter Willstatter

Richard Martin Willstätter 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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