Artturi Ilmari Virtanen
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A Finnish chemist who solved how to keep animal feed from rotting - work that won him the 1945 Nobel Prize and made milk cheaper across Europe.
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Artturi I. Virtanen pitää virkaanastujaisesitelmää Teknillisen korkeakoulun juhlasalissa
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Chemiker- 1. Reihe- Frau Virtanen, Artturi I. Virtanen, Gerhard Domagk, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Hermann Staudinger, Karl Georg v. Hevesy, Frau Domagk, - LABW - Staatsarchiv Freiburg W 134 Nr. 052411cAwards 12
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Carl Gustaf Emil MannerheimAlso won Memorial medal of the War of Liberation
Heinrich LübkeAlso won Grand Cross of the Order of Merit for Agriculture
Nikolaus von FalkenhorstAlso won Cross of Liberty, 2nd Class
Väinö LinnaAlso won Memorial medal of the Continuation War
Esa-Pekka SalonenAlso won Commander First Class of the Order of the Lion of Finland
Andrii YermakAlso won Grand Cross of the Order of the Lion of FinlandAbout this person
Artturi Ilmari Virtanen was born on 15 January 1895 in Finland, trained as a chemist, and turned his attention to a problem farmers knew too well: fodder spoils, cows go hungry, milk dries up. He developed AIV silage, a preservation method that kept feed fresh longer and lifted milk production wherever it spread. He also worked out a way to preserve butter using AIV salt, which opened export routes and put Finnish butter on foreign tables. The Nobel committee gave him the prize in Chemistry in 1945 for his research and inventions in agricultural and nutrition chemistry. He died on 11 November 1973.
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