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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.