Richard Kuhn
Austrian-German biochemist (1900-1967)
- Fame56.4
- Momentum1.5
- Austria rank#230
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- Fame56.4
- Momentum1.5
- Austria rank#230
- Scientists rank#175
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Lived 1900–1967, aged 67Austria
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Updated 2026-06-09
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.
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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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