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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 the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut für Medizinische Forschung in Heidelberg since the Institute was opened in 1930, and, after the death of von Krehl, was made director of the Institute in 1937. Kuhn's work does not consist of one single great achievement, although he has made important contributions to many problems in organic and biochemistry. His early work was concerned with enzymes and with stereochemical problems. He has done important work on the polyenes, of the general formula C5H5(CH = CH)n C6H5, which he was able to synthesize up to n =15. It was thus possible to gain information on the behaviour of long chains of conjugated double bonds, which are also of interest in other fields of work such as photographic sensitizers.
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Nobel Laureates. Nature 144, 858–859 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144858a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144858a0