The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1945 Artturi Ilmari Virtanen Born:
15 January 1895, Helsinki, Russian Empire (now Finland) Died: 11
November 1973, Helsinki, Finland Affiliation at the time of the
award: University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Prize
motivation: "for his research and inventions in agricultural and
nutrition chemistry, especially for his fodder preservation
method" Field: Agricultural chemistry Artturi Ilmari Virtanen
was born in Helsinki on the 15th of January, 1895, as the son of
Kaarlo Virtanen and Serafiina Isotalo. He was educated at the
Classical Lyceum at Viipuri, Finland. After finishing school, he
studied chemistry, biology, and physics at the University of
Helsinki, where he took his M.Sc. in 1916 and obtained his D.Sc.
in 1919. Subsequently he studied physical chemistry in Zurich in
1920 under G. Wiegner, bacteriology in Stockholm in 1921 under
Chr. Barthel, and enzymology in Stockholm during 1923-1924 under
H. von Euler. Since 1923, his interest turned to He was first-
assistant of the