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Richard Johann Kuhn was an Austrian-German biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1938 "for his work on carotenoids and vitamins".
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science · Austrian-German biochemist (1900–1967) · biochemist · chemist · university teacher · physician · also Richard Kuhn, Richard Johann Kuhn, Kuhn
Born 3 December 1900 · Died 31 July 1967 · Q78483
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The Society of German Chemists (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, GDCh) declared their intention to no longer award the Richard Kuhn Medal: "The board of the GDCh intends to discontinue awarding the Medal named after the
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“The wheel may be one of those cases where the engineering solution can be seen in plain view, yet be unattainable in evolution because it lies [on] the other side of a deep valley, cutting unbridgeably across the massif of Mount Improbable.”
Died 1967-07-31.
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Awarded Centenary Prize (1962).
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Awarded Prize of the City of Vienna for Natural Sciences (1962).
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Awarded Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (1961).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Vienna (1960).
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Awarded Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (1958).
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Won Wilhelm Exner Medal (1952).
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Awarded Emil-von-Behring-Prize (1944).
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Awarded Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt (1942).
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for his work on carotenoids and vitamins.
Awarded honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (1938).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1938).
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"for his work on carotenoids and vitamins"
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For his "work on carotenoids and vitamins," but rejected the prize as Hitler had forbidden German citizens to accept it
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Won Cothenius Medal (1937).
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Won Adolf-von-Baeyer Gold Medal (1934).
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Became Principal of the Institute for Chemistry at the newly founded Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research (which, since 1950, has been renamed the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg)
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Married Daisy Hartmann and the couple subsequently had two sons and four daughters
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With Richard Willstätter for a scientific work on enzymes
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Studied at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (1919).
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Kuhn attended lectures at the University of Vienna in chemistry
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Studied at University of Vienna (1918).
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Born 1900-12-03.
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