Richard Willstätter

Richard Willstätter (1872–1942) was a German chemist and university teacher specializing in physical chemistry. Born in Karlsruhe, he studied at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München under doctoral advisors Alfred Einhorn and Adolf von Baeyer. His academic career included positions at ETH Zurich, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, with work primarily located in Munich. He held citizenship in the German Empire, Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, and Switzerland.

Willstätter was a member of the Royal Society, the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the Faraday Lectureship Prize, the Willard Gibbs Award, and the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art. Notable works include *Untersuchungen über chlorophyll*, *Investigations on chlorophyll*, and *Problems and methods in enzyme research*. He died of a myocardial infarction in Muralto.