Fritz Pregl

Fritz (Friderik) Pregl (September 3, 1869 – December 13, 1930) was an Austrian chemist of Slovenian descent. A native of Ljubljana (German Laibach). He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1923 for making important contributions to quantitative organic microanalysis one of which was the improvement of the combustion train technique for elemental analysis.

Reference

• Fritz Pregl - Biography Nobel Foundation, acquired on June 1, 2005. From Nobel Lectures, Chemistry 1922-1941, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1966.
• Zvonka Zupani?-Slavec. Physician Friderik Pregl, Nobelist of Slovenian Descent, Zdravni?ki vestnik, 2001; 70: 399?404. Institute for the History of Medicine, Medical Faculty, University of Ljubljana. Available online.