Richard Willstätter
| Date of birth | August 13, 1872 |
| Place of birth | Karlsruhe |
| Date of death | August 3, 1942 |
| Place of death | Muralto, Canton Ticino |
| Wikipedia link | https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Willstätter |
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Richard Willstätter
- Grants -
Rockefeller Foundation
After resigning from his chair at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, Willstätter received a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation in 1928, through Fritz Haber, with which he was able to finance a research assistant and the purchase of chemicals in order to continue his research on enzymes.
Richard Willstätter
- Director of the State Chemical Laboratory -
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
On April 1, 1916, Willstätter took up his new position as the successor to the emeritus Adolf von Baeyer in Munich and became director of the state chemical laboratory at Arcisstrasse 1.
On September 4, 1915, Willstätter received a position at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, which he accepted immediately.
Willstätter made the decision to resign from his position in 1924 due to increasing anti-Semitism. After the succession had been arranged, he resigned as full professor on October 1, 1925, but at the request of his colleagues remained a member of the faculty even after his resignation.
Richard Willstätter
- Prize winner 1915 -
Nobelpreis für Chemie
On November 11, 1915, Richard Willstätter was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his studies of plant pigments, especially chlorophyll and anthocyanidins.
Richard Willstätter
- Friends -
Fritz Haber
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Richard Willstätter
- earned his doctorate at -
Richard Kuhn
Richard Kuhn received his doctorate from Willstätter in 1922 with a thesis on the properties of ferments and completed his habilitation in Munich in 1925.
Richard Kuhn received his doctorate in Munich in 1922 with a thesis “On the specificity of enzymes” under Richard Willstätter. In 1928 he also published the final results again with Willstätter, who had resigned from all offices after the summer semester of 1925.
Richard Willstätter
- President (1924-1926) -
Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft
In mid-1924, Willstätter was elected president of the German Chemical Society in Berlin for two years, succeeding Fritz Haber; His deputies in these two electoral periods were Max Bodenstein, Heinrich Wieland, Willy Marckwald and Fritz Raschig.
Richard Willstätter
- Head of the Department of Organic Chemistry -
Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie
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Richard Willstätter
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Weizmann-Institut für Wissenschaften
Among other things, Chaim Weizmann was able to receive the support of Nobel Prize winner Richard Willstätter, who was a friend of Fritz Haber and who gave a speech at the founding on April 3, 1934.