About
A Swiss organic chemist who studied vitamins and won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1937. He helped identify lactoflavin as part of the complex originally thought to be vitamin B2.
Before Fame
He obtained a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Zurich in 1911.
Trivia
Through his work he confirmed the chemical structure of vitamin C.
Family Life
He had three sons with his wife Helena Froelich after marrying in 1914.
Associated With
He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twenty-five years after Madame Curie did.
