Fritz Pregl
1869 – 1930 · aged 61
Slovene-Austrian Nobel prize laureate and scientist (1869-1930)
- Born
- 3 Sept 1869 · Ljubljana
- Died
- 13 Dec 1930 · Graz
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- 3 Sept 1869BornBorn in Ljubljana
- 1914AwardLieben Prize
- 1923AwardNobel Prize in Chemistry
- 13 Dec 1930DiedDied in Graz
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Major world events during their lifetime (1869 – 1930).
- 1870 – 1871Franco-Prussian War
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
Biography
Fritz Pregl (Slovene: Friderik Pregl; 3 September 1869 – 13 December 1930), was a Slovenian-Austrian chemist and physician from a mixed Slovene-German-speaking background. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1923 for making important contributions to quantitative organic microanalysis, one of which was the improvement of the combustion train technique for elemental analysis.
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