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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1938

"for his work on carotenoids and vitamins"
Richard Kuhn
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Richard Kuhn
Germany
University of Heidelberg; Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut (now Max-Planck Institut) für Medizinische Forschung
Heidelberg, Germany
b. 1900
(in Vienna, Austria)
d. 1967
 
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