Richard Willstätter's Birth Card: The King of Clubs

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Richard Martin Willstätter FRS(For) HFRSE (, 13 August 1872 – 3 August 1942) was a German organic chemist whose study of the structure of plant pigments, chlorophyll included, won him the 1915 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. The birth-card coordinate for August 13 is the King of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1915 Chemistry prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1915 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for his researches on plant pigments, especially chlorophyll

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Richard Willstätter in the public record

Willstätter was born into a Jewish family in Karlsruhe. He was the son of Maxwell (Max) Willstätter, a textile merchant, and his wife, Sophie Ulmann. He went to school at the Karlsruhe Gymnasium and, when his family moved to Nuremberg, he attended the Technical School there. At age 18, he entered the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München to study science and stayed for the next fifteen years. He was in the Department of Chemistry, first as a student of Alfred Einhorn—he received his doctorate in 1894 – then as a faculty member. His doctoral thesis was on the structure of cocaine. Willstätter continued his research into other alkaloids and synthesized several of them. In 1896, he was named Lecturer and in 1902 Professor extraordinarius (professor without a chair).

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Richard Martin Willstätter FRS(For) HFRSE (, 13 August 1872 – 3 August 1942) was a German organic chemist whose study of the structure of plant pigments, chlorophyll included, won him the 1915 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

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Also on the record

1. In 1905, he left the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München to become professor at ETH Zurich and there he worked on the plant pigment chlorophyll.
2. He first determined its empirical formula.
3. In 1912, he became professor of chemistry at the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin and director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry, studying the structure of pigments of flowers and fruits.
4. It was here that Willstätter showed that chlorophyll was a mixture of two compounds, chlorophyll a and chlorophyll b.

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