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Richard Willstätter

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Richard Willstätter

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Also known as Richard Willstaetter, Richard Willstatter

German chemist (1872–1942)

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Richard Willstätter was a German chemist who lived from 1872 to 1942 and made important contributions to understanding the structure of organic molecules. His work advanced the field of chemistry during a period of significant scientific progress in early 20th-century Germany.

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Born
1872
Died
1942
Works
10

Top works

  • Untersuchungen über chlorophyll
  • Richard Willstätter im Briefwechsel mit Emil Fischer in den Jahren 1901 bis 1918
  • Untersuchungen über die Assimilation der Kohlensäure
  • Investigations on chlorophyll
  • Problems and methods in enzyme research

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Person
Country
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Active from
1813-05-22
Active to
1883-02-13

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5 total works indexed

  1. The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data

    · 1977 · cited 61,606x

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    · 2009 · cited 46,792x

  4. ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database

    · 2009 · cited 46,195x

  5. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

    · 2021 · cited 41,509x

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1872-08-13
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1942-08-03
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Richard Martin Willstätter
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Richard Martin Willstätter FRS(For) HFRSE ( German pronunciation: [ˈʁɪçaʁt ˈvɪlˌʃtɛtɐ] , 13 August 1872 – 3 August 1942) 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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1872 births1942 deathsAcademic staff of ETH ZurichAcademic staff of LMU MunichAcademic staff of the Humboldt University of BerlinEmigrants from Nazi Germany to SwitzerlandForeign associates of the National Academy of SciencesForeign members of the Royal SocietyGerman Nobel laureatesGerman organic chemistsGerman physical chemistsJewish chemistsJewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to SwitzerlandJewish Nobel laureatesLMU Munich alumniMax Planck Institute directorsNobel laureates in ChemistryPeople from the Grand Duchy of BadenRecipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class)Scientists from Karlsruhe