Back
العربية
Richard Kuhn
Richard Kuhn · ETH Zürich, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Person

Richard Kuhn

1900 – 1967 · aged 67

Austrian-German biochemist (1900-1967)

Born
3 Dec 1900 · Vienna
Died
31 Jul 1967 · Heidelberg
Part ofAustria112 BCE – todayCisleithania1791 – 1918Nazi Germany1860 – 1945West Germany1877 – 1990

Life timeline

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

Showing 77 years
  1. 3 Dec 1900BornBorn in Vienna
  2. 1934AwardAdolf-von-Baeyer Gold Medal
  3. 1937AwardCothenius Medal
  4. 1938AwardHonorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
  5. 1938AwardNobel Prize in Chemistry
  6. 1942AwardGoethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt
  7. 1944AwardEmil-von-Behring-Prize
  8. 1952AwardWilhelm Exner Medal
  9. 1958AwardPaul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize
  10. 1958AwardPour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order
  11. 1960AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Vienna
  12. 1961AwardAustrian Decoration for Science and Art
  13. 1962AwardCentenary Prize
  14. 31 Jul 1967DiedDied in Heidelberg

Loading from Wikipedia and Wikidata…

Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1900 – 1967).

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

Biography

Richard Johann Kuhn (German pronunciation: [ˈʁɪçaʁt ˈkuːn] ; 3 December 1900 – 31 July 1967) was an Austrian-German biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1938 "for his work on carotenoids and vitamins".

Text from the Wikipedia article Richard Kuhn, CC BY-SA 4.0

About this information

Dates and life events come from this person’s Wikidata entry.

We only show events that the sources give a date for. Anything without a date is left out rather than guessed.