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Richard Willstätter
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Person

Richard Willstätter

1872 – 1942 · aged 70

German chemist (1872–1942)

Born
13 Aug 1872 · Karlsruhe
Died
3 Aug 1942 · Muralto
Part ofGerman Empire1797 – 1918Weimar Republic1834 – 1933Nazi Germany1860 – 1945

Life timeline

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

Showing 81 years
  1. 13 Aug 1872BornBorn in Karlsruhe
  2. 1907AwardBressa Prize
  3. 1910AwardHonorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
  4. 1914AwardAdolf-von-Baeyer Gold Medal
  5. 1915AwardNobel Prize in Chemistry
  6. 1924AwardPour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order
  7. 1925AwardBavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
  8. 1927AwardFaraday Lectureship Prize
  9. 1928AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
  10. 1932AwardDavy Medal
  11. 1932AwardGoethe Medal for Art and Science
  12. 1933AwardWillard Gibbs Award
  13. 3 Aug 1942DiedDied in Muralto

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1872 – 1942).

  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

Biography

Richard Martin Willstätter FRS(For) HFRSE (German pronunciation: [ˈʁɪçaʁt ˈvɪlˌʃtɛtɐ] , 13 August 1872 – 3 August 1942) was a German organic chemist whose study of the structure of plant pigments, chlorophyll included, won him the 1915 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

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