Fritz Pregl
Slovene-Austrian Nobel prize laureate and scientist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Fritz Pregl (Slovene: Friderik Pregl; 3 September 1869 – 13 December 1930), was a Slovenian-Austrian chemist and physician from a mixed Slovene-German-speaking background. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1923 for making important contributions to quantitative organic microanalysis, one of which was the improvement of the combustion train technique for elemental analysis.
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Born | (1869-09-03)3 September 1869 |
Died | 13 December 1930(1930-12-13) (aged 61) Graz, Styria, Austria |
Nationality | Austria-Hungary |
Alma mater | University of Graz |
Occupation(s) | Graz circuit forensic chemist (1907) Dean of the Graz University Medical Faculty (1916-1917) Vice Chancellor of Graz University (1920-1921) |
Known for | Microelemental analysis |
Awards | Lieben Prize (1914) Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1923) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Chemistry, medicine |
Institutions | University of Graz, University of Innsbruck |
Doctoral advisor | Alexander Rollett[citation needed] |
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