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    for Chemistry in 1937. Karrer was born in Moscow, Russia to Paul Karrer and Julie Lerch, both Swiss nationals. In 1892 Karrer's family returned to Switzerland...
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  • Felix Karrer (1825–1903), Austrian geologist Josef Karrer (born 1939), German handball player Karl Karrer (1815–1886), Swiss politician Paul Karrer (1889–1971)...
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    The Paul Karrer Gold Medal and Lecture is awarded annually or biennially by the University of Zurich to an outstanding researcher in the field of chemistry...
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    1930, Paul Karrer elucidated the correct structure for beta-carotene, the main precursor of vitamin A, and identified other carotenoids. Karrer and Norman...
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    carbohydrates and vitamin C". The prize was shared with Swiss chemist Paul Karrer for his work on other vitamins. Haworth worked out the correct structure...
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    were two Nobel Prize winners, Henry Hallett Dale and Paul Karrer. The institute was renamed Paul Ehrlich Institute in Ehrlich's honour in 1947. In 1914...
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    2000 – The H. C. Brown Lecture Award 2003 – Japan Academy Prize 2009 – Paul Karrer Gold Medal 2009 – Special Member of Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)...
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    Karrer is a lunar impact crater that is located in the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon. It lies to the northeast of the crater Minkowski...
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    1979 2016 Sold in 2016 at Heritage Auctions for $274,000 with Wittig's Paul Karrer Gold Medal from Universitat Zurich, the Otto Hahn Prize for Chemistry...
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    Hugo Müller Lectureship (1972) Flintoff Medal (1975) Davy Medal (1977) Paul Karrer Gold Medal (1977) Max Tishler Prize (1978) Natural Product Chemistry...
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    Prize 1928) Carotenoids, studied by Paul Karrer (Nobel Prize 1937) Vitamins, studied among others by Paul Karrer, Adolf Windaus, Robert R. Williams, Norman...
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    Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1957) Nobel Prize (1959) Paul Karrer Gold Medal (1963) Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1965) National...
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    soluble" in 1918 and later "vitamin A" in 1920. In 1931, Swiss chemist Paul Karrer described the chemical structure of vitamin A. Retinoic acid and retinol...
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    their Nobel Prize while in prison or detention. Two Nobel laureates, Jean-Paul Sartre (Literature, 1964) and Lê Ðức Thọ (Peace, 1973), declined the award;...
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  • elucidated its structure in 1938 and shortly afterward the same year, Paul Karrer and his team first synthesized it. Nearly 50 years after the discovery...
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    Chauvin) 2005: Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry 2005: Paul Karrer Gold Medal 2006: Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement...
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    Léon Rosenfeld (additional participants) H. Casimir, J. Cockroft, P. Dee, Paul Dirac, Ferretti, O. Frisch, Oskar Klein, Leprince-Ringuet, Lise Meitner,...
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  • Physiology or Medicine, 1949 Paul Hermann Müller, Physiology or Medicine, 1948 Hermann Hesse, born in Germany, Literature, 1946 Paul Karrer, Chemistry, 1937 Albert...
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    New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-19-829579-0. Maddrell, Paul: Spying on Science: Western Intelligence in Divided Germany 1945–1961. Oxford...
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  • Osborn (died 1981), American philanthropist and eugenicist. April 21 – Paul Karrer (died 1971), Swiss winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry. May 18 – Thomas...
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    on to work in Zürich, Switzerland, with the discoverer of vitamin A, Paul Karrer. Wald then worked briefly with Otto Fritz Meyerhof in Heidelberg, Germany...
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  • 1930, Paul Karrer elucidated the correct structure for beta-carotene, the main precursor of vitamin A, and identified other carotenoids. Karrer and Norman...
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    Davy Medal (1949) Royal Medal (1955) Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1957) Paul Karrer Gold Medal (1963) Copley Medal (1970) Lomonosov Gold Medal (1978) Scientific...
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  • plutonium oxide Jerome Karle (1918–2013), 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Paul Karrer (1889–1971), 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner...
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    yellow plant pigments (β-carotene) and vitamin A. In 1931, Swiss chemist Paul Karrer described the chemical structure of vitamin A. Retinoic acid and retinol...
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    vertebrates and invertebrates. In 1967, she and George Wald shared the Paul Karrer Gold Medal for their work in this area. In the late 1960s, her interests...
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  • (d. 1978) 1889 – Marcel Boussac, French businessman (d. 1980) 1889 – Paul Karrer, Russian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971) 1889...
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  • tetraphenylborate Awards Otto Hahn Prize for Chemistry and Physics (1967) Paul Karrer Gold Medal (1972) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1979) Scientific career Fields...
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  • technical innovator Stefan Janos (born 1943), low temperature physicist Paul Karrer (1889–1971), 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Emil Theodor Kocher (1841–1917)...
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  • eleven Marcel Benoist winners have later also won the Nobel Prize: Paul Karrer, Leopold Ruzicka, Walter R. Hess, Tadeus Reichstein, Vladimir Prelog...
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