`Richard Kuhn` Biography - Nobel Prize Winner (1938)

Richard Kuhn (Vienna, December 3, 1900 – August 1, 1967 in Heidelberg, Germany) was an Austrian-German biochemist and Nobel Prize winner. Life Kuhn grew up in Vienna and attended grammar school and high school there. His interest in chemistry surfaced early, however he was universally interested and decided late to study chemistry. Beginning in 1918 he attended lectures at the University of Vienna in chemistry. He finished his chemistry studies in Munich and received his doctoral degree in 1922 for a scientific work on enzymes. After graduating Kuhn continued his scientic career, first in Munich, then at the ETH Zurich and from 1929 onwards at the University of Heidelberg, where he was head of the chemistry department beginning in 1937. In 1928 he married Daisy Hartmann and the couple subsequently had two sons and four daughters. Scientific work and Nobel Prize Kuhn's areas of study included: carotenoids, stereochemistry, vitamins, and enzymes. He was the first to isolate a B vitamin. He was subsequently awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1938 for his work in carotenoids and vitamins, but was unable to accept the award until after World War II. He had been associated for many years with the Max Planck Institut, and had also been associated with the University of Heidelberg and the University of Pennsylvania. He was editor of Justus Liebigs Annalen der Chemie from 1948. Kuhn died in 1967 in Heidelberg, Germany.

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