Richard Willstätter

Richard Martin Willstätter was a German chemist and university teacher born in Karlsruhe in 1872. He worked in physical chemistry and was employed by the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, ETH Zurich, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and the Kaiser Wilhelm Society. His professional locations included Munich. He received his education at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München under doctoral advisors Alfred Einhorn and Adolf von Baeyer.

Willstätter was a member of the Royal Society, the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He held citizenship in the German Empire, Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, and Switzerland. His awards included the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the Faraday Lectureship Prize, the Willard Gibbs Award, and the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art. He died of a myocardial infarction in Muralto in 1942.