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Paul Karrer

Paul Karrer

Swiss organic chemist (1889–1971)
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🗓️ 21 April 1889

Paul Karrer was a Swiss organic chemist best known for his research on vitamins. He and British chemist Norman Haworth won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1937.

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