Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Artturi Ilmari Virtanen

Finnish chemist and professor

Date of Birth: 15-Jan-1895

Place of Birth: Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Date of Death: 11-Nov-1973

Profession: inventor, chemist, university teacher, biochemist

Nationality: Finland

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Artturi Ilmari Virtanen (Finnish: ['?rt?uri 'ilm?ri '?irt?nen] (listen); 15 January 1895 – 11 November 1973) was a Finnish chemist and recipient of the 1945 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his research and inventions in agricultural and nutrition chemistry, especially for his fodder preservation method".He invented AIV silage which improved milk production and a method of preserving butter, the AIV salt, which led to increased Finnish butter exports.