Richard Willstätter, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Richard Willstätter

chemist (1872-1942)

Date of Birth: 13-Aug-1872

Place of Birth: Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Date of Death: 03-Aug-1942

Profession: chemist, university teacher, maize

Nationality: Switzerland, German Empire

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Prof Richard Martin Willstätter FRS(For) HFRSE (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.
Willstätter invented paper chromatography independently of Mikhail Tsvet.