Artturi Ilmari Virtanen was a Finnish Nobel Laureate in Chemistry in the year 1945 and is considered to be one of the famous Helsinki people. Born in the year 1895, he completed his primary education at the Classical Lyceum in Viipuri. His scientific bent of mind started gaining prominence during his pursuance of masters degree in Chemistry in the year 1913.
Simultaneously, he completed his Phd in organic chemistry too. It was not long before he realized that he should not constrict his horizon of knowledge to chemistry but also venture out into fields like Botany and Zoology. Even after working for a considerable period of time in the dairy product laboratories of Valio and later becoming the director of the farm, he shifted to enhancing his educational qualification by gaining educational apprenticeship in fields like physical chemistry, soil chemistry and microbiology.
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Artturi Ilmari Virtanen Works
Some of the works by Artturi Ilmari Virtanen include:
- The study of fermentation reaction and the phosphorylation of hexoses in 1924
- Study of nitrogen-fixing bacteria in the root nodules of leguminous plants in the year 1925.
- Study of fodder preservation method, which was patented in the year 1932
With his contribution in the field of science, Virtanen was awarded the Nobel Prize 'for his research and inventions in agricultural and nutrition chemistry'. In his later years until the year of his death in 1973, he continued working on experimental projects like the preparation of synthetic cattle feeds.
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