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Paul Karrer
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Paul Karrer

1889 – 1971 · aged 82

Swiss chemist (1889-1971)

Born
21 Apr 1889 · Moscow
Died
18 Jun 1971 · Zurich
Part ofSwitzerland218 BCE – todayRussia1223 – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 94 years
  1. 21 Apr 1889BornBorn in Moscow
  2. 1922AwardMarcel Benoist Prize
  3. 1934AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense
  4. 1937AwardDoctor honoris causa from the University of Lyon
  5. 1937AwardNobel Prize in Chemistry
  6. 1938AwardDoctor honoris causa from the University of Paris
  7. 1947AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
  8. 1950AwardHonorary doctorate from the University of Strasbourg
  9. 1950 – 1952RoleRector
  10. 18 Jun 1971DiedDied in Zurich

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1889 – 1971).

  1. 18961896 Summer Olympics
  2. 1898Spanish–American War
  3. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  4. 1914 – 1918World War I
  5. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  6. 1917Balfour Declaration
  7. 1917February Revolution
  8. 1917October Revolution
  9. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  10. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  11. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  12. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  13. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  14. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  15. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  16. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1938Munich Agreement
  18. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  19. 1939 – 1945World War II
  20. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  21. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  22. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  23. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  24. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  25. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  26. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  27. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  29. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  30. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  31. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  32. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  33. 1956Suez Crisis
  34. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  35. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  36. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  37. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  38. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  39. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  40. 1968Prague Spring

Biography

Paul Karrer (21 April 1889 – 18 June 1971) was a Swiss organic chemist best known for his research on vitamins. He and British chemist Norman Haworth won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1937.

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