Richard Willstätter
Richard Willstätter · Science & Medicine
Research on plant pigments, especially chlorophyll
1872, Karlsruhe, Germany — 1942, Muralto, Switzerland
Germany · Switzerland
Richard Willstätter is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Research on plant pigments, especially chlorophyll
Born into a Jewish family in Karlsruhe, Willstätter elucidated the structure of chlorophyll, the green pigment central to photosynthesis, and studied plant pigments more broadly, earning the 1915 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. In 1924 he resigned his Munich professorship in protest against the antisemitism blocking faculty appointments, and after the Nazis came to power he was forced to emigrate in 1939, dying in exile in Switzerland. His career is a stark record of a great scientist driven out by prejudice.
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Source: Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Chemistry 1915
Research on plant pigments, especially chlorophyll
Source: Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Chemistry 1915
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