!!!Kuhn, Richard Johann

b. Vienna, Dec. 3, 1900, 
d. Heidelberg (Germany), July 31, 1967, chemist, Nobel Laureate. 
University professor in Zurich (1926) and Heidelberg (1928), 1937 Head 
of the M. Planck Institute. 1938 awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry 
for his pioneering research on vitamins and carotinoids, but had to 
renounce it under Nazi pressure (finally received in 1948). Later also 
research on the chemistry of sex hormones, pheromones etc. as well as 
the vitamin B group; was the first to prove the connection between 
vitamins and ferments. Numerous international awards, honorary member 
of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

!Publications
Chemie und Kinetik, 1925/26; Lehrbuch der Enzyme, 1927; 
Edition: Biochemie, 1947ff.

!Literature
NDB.



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