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Richard Kuhn was fascinated by a class of organic compounds called polyenes, on account of their distinctive long chains of carbon atoms linked by alternating double and single bonds. Kuhn was interested in investigating how these unique chemical chains affected the basic characteristics of polyene molecules, like their ability to interact with light. As polyenes form the basis of many natural ...
Richard Willstätter (1915 Nobel Prize in Chemistry), who passed away in 1942 and hence never attended a Lindau Meeting, was the supervisor of Kuhn’s PhD work in Munich. His scientific achievements aside, Kuhn’s opportunistic behaviour during the Nazi regime in Germany has been and still is a controversial subject. In 2005 the German ...
Prof. R. Kuhn PROF. RICHARD KUHN, who has been awarded the Nobel prize for chemistry for 1938, is Viennese by birth and a pupil of Willstätter. He has been head of the Department of Chemistry of ...
Award ceremony speech . The following account of Kuhn’s work has been made. When Richard Kuhn in 1926 took over the Chair for General and Analytical Chemistry at the Federal Institute of Technology Zurich he set in motion a comprehensive series of investigations into the so-called conjugated double bonds which make up the essential arrangement of the atoms of the polyenes.
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Richard Kuhn was born in Vienna on 3 December 1900. He was one of two children to Richard Kuhn, an imperial-royal privy councillor and engineer, and Angelika, a primary school teacher née Rodler. Initially taught by his mother, Kuhn attended the same school as future physicist and Nobel laureate Wolfgang Pauli from 1910 to 1918. Studies
Richard Kuhn received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1938 for his work on carotenoids and vitamins. In 1936 he succeeded in the first partial synthesis of vitamin B2, and he also clarified the complete structure of vitamin B6 before synthesizing this vitamin. Simultaneously with research on vitamins, Kuhn was also interested in chemical sex substances.
