Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1945

Artturi Ilmari Virtanen

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1945 was awarded to Artturi Ilmari Virtanen "for his research and inventions in agricultural and nutrition chemistry, especially for his fodder preservation method"

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