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THE world-famous Austrian micro-chemist, Dr. Fritz Pregl, died of pneumonia, after a very brief illness, on Dee. 13 last. Prof. Pregl, who was sixty-one years of age when he died, was born at Laibach, a town which is now in Jugo-Slavia but is less than 100 miles south of Graz, the capital of ‘green Styria’ where he lived nearly all his life as student, research assistant, and finally as professor, the head of the Department of Medical Chemistry in the university. He studied medicine -which in Austria comprises considerably more pure science than in most English medical schools- -and after taking his degree, he chose rather physiological research than the practice of medicine. He was appointed an assistant in the Department of Physiology in the University of Graz, and his first work was on the various organic constituents of the intestinal juice of a lamb, and a study of their digestive action, which he published in Pfl¼gers Archives in 1895.
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Prof. Fritz Pregl. Nature 127, 135–136 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/127135a0
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