# Richard Kuhn

> Kuhn unlocked the chemistry of color and life itself — carotenoids, the pigments that paint carrots and flamingos, and the vitamins that keep cells running. A Nobel Prize in 1938 marked the peak, though the war years complicated the honor.

*Austrian-German biochemist (1900-1967)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Country:** Austria
- **Born:** 1900-12-03
- **Died:** 1967-07-31
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Richard Johann Kuhn was born in December 1900, trained in an Austria-Germany scientific corridor, and carved his path through biochemistry at a time when the molecular logic of nutrition was still opaque. His work on carotenoids — the compounds behind autumn leaves and egg yolks — and on vitamins earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1938. He died in July 1967, decades after the field he helped crack open had become textbook canon.

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## Topics
#Scientists, #Scientist, #Chemistry, #Medicine, #20th Century

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