Richard Kuhn

KUHN, RICHARD (1900-1967). A German chemist who won the Nobel prize for chemistry in 1938. He worked on cartinoids and synthetic vitamins and discovered the chemical formula for vitamin B6. He also... 

Richard Kuhn, "Richard Willstatter, 1872-1942," Die Naturwissenschaften, 36 1 (1949), 1-5. See also the review in Die Pharmazeutische Industrie, 3 (1940), 83 and Angewandte Chemie, 61 (1949), 349. On Richard Kuhn s career, see Richard Carstensen, "Richard Kuhn," in Via Triumphalis, 254-266. 

Kuhn, Richard (1900-67) German chemist who worked on enzymes and the three-dimensional structure of molecules (stereochemistry) and who made important discoveries in the field of vitamins, especially vitamin A. He was awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in chemistry. 

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