Chemist no. 116 of 350 · Biochemistry

Richard Kuhn

1900-1967AustriaNobel Chemistry 1938

Carotenoids and vitamins

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The discovery, explained

Richard Kuhn and the Yellow Vitamin: Riboflavin, Carotenoids and Vitamin B6

How Richard Kuhn isolated and synthesised riboflavin, studied carotenoids and vitamin B6, and gave the Kuhn-Roth oxidation. Notes for JAM, NET, GATE.

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Biography

Richard Kuhn: Vitamin Hunter, Nobel Laureate and a Complicated Legacy

Life of Richard Kuhn, the Austrian-German chemist who isolated riboflavin and studied carotenoids and vitamins, and won the 1938 Chemistry Nobel Prize.

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Academic lineage

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Teachers: Richard Willstätterdoctoral
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