Richard Willstätter
German chemist (1872–1942)
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German chemist who cracked the structure of chlorophyll and plant pigments, landing the 1915 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Made photosynthesis slightly less of a mystery.
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Richard Martin Willstätter FRS(For) HFRSE was a German organic chemist whose study of the structure of plant pigments, chlorophyll included, won him the 1915 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
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