Awards & Winners

Richard Willstätter

Date of Birth 13-August-1872
Place of Birth Karlsruhe
(Germany, Karlsruhe (District), Baden-Württemberg, Karlsruhe)
Nationality Germany
Also know as Richard Willstatter
Profession Scientist, Chemist
Richard Martin Willstätter, ForMemRS was a German organic chemist whose study of the structure of plant pigments, chlorophyll included, won him the 1915 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Willstätter invented paper chromatography independently of Mikhail Tsvet.

Awards by Richard Willstätter

Check all the awards nominated and won by Richard Willstätter.

1915


Nobel Prize in Chemistry
(for his researches on plant pigments, especially chlorophyll)