!!!Pregl, Fritz

b. Ljubljana, Slovenia (then Laibach), Sept. 3, 1869, 
d. Graz (Styria), Dec. 13, 1930, chemist; Nobel prize winner 1923 for 
the quantitative microanalysis of organic combinations. Pioneer of 
microchemical research. 1903 and from 1913 university professor in 
Graz, 1910-1913 in Innsbruck, head of the Medical-Chemical Institute 
of the University in Graz. 1914 Lieben Prize; donated the P. Prize 
(administered by the Academy of Sciences in Vienna). His methods of 
analysis of minimal amounts of substances allowed revolutionary 
research into metabolism, hormones and enzymes. For this P. used 
particularly sensitive laboratory equipment (e.g. the microbalance); 
"P's iodine solution", an iodine-based disinfectant, is named after 
him. P. (with F. Emich) made Graz the centre of microchemical 
research.

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Work: Die quantitative organische Mikroanalyse, 1917.

!Literature
H. Lieb, Friedrich Emich und F. P., in: Oe. 
Naturforscher und Techniker, 1950; OeBL.



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