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It is the scientist's lot, as it is the artist's, to be less important than his work. He who is chosen to lift the veil from Nature's secrets will be easily overshadowed by the creation he has revealed and which will make him immortal.

Richard Willstätter

I consider the teaching and study of the historical development of science as indispensable... Our textbooks fail in this respect.

Richard Willstätter

Richard Willstätter

Richard Willstätter

Born: August 13, 1872

Died: August 3, 1942 (aged 69)

Bio: Richard Martin Willstätter, ForMemRS was a German organic chemist whose study of the structure of plant pigments, chlorophyll included, won him the 1915 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Willstätter invented paper chromatography independently of Mikhail Tsvet.

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