Richard Kuhn

Richard Kuhn (December 3,1900 in Vienna, Austria; ? August 1,1967 in Heidelberg, Germany) was an Austrian-German biochemist and Nobel Prize winner.

Life

Kuhn grew up in Vienna and attended grammar school and high school there. His interest in chemistry surfaced early, however he was universally interested and decided late to study chemistry. Beginning in 1918 he attended lectures at the University of Vienna in chemistry. He finished his chemistry studies in Munich and received his doctoral degree in 1922 for a scientific work on enzyms.

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1918 - University of Vienna - Munich - 1922

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After graduating Kuhn continued his scientic career, first in Munich, then at the ETH Zurich and from 1929 onwards at the University of Heidelberg, where he was head of the chemistry department beginning in 1937. In 1928 he married Daisy Hartmann and the couple subsequently had two sons and four daughters.

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ETH Zurich - 1929 - 1937 - 1928

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