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Richard Willstatter

Richard Martin Willstätter, ForMemRS (13 August 1872 – 3 August 1942) was a German organic chemist whose study of the structure of plant pigments, chlorophyll included, won him the 1915 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Willstätter invented paper chromatography independently of Mikhail Tsvet.

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I watched Baeyer activating magnesium with iodine for a difficult Grignard reaction; it was done in a test tube, which he watched carefully as he moved it gently by hand over a flame for three quarters of an hour. The test tube was the apparatus to Baeyer.

Activating, Flames, Hands, Iodine, Three

[Fritz Haber's] greatness lies in his scientific ideas and in the depth of his searching. The thought, the plan, and the process are more important to him than the completion. The creative process gives him more pleasure than the yield, the finished piece. Success is immaterial. "Doing it was wonderful. " His work is nearly always uneconomical, with the wastefulness of the rich.

Hard Work, Lying, Piece, Success, Thought

We should misjudge this scientist [Fritz Haber] seriously if we were to judge him only by his harvest. The stimulation of research and the advancement of younger scholars become ever more important to him than his own achievements.

Achievement, Achievements, Haber, Judging, Science, Stimulation

Baeyer-a chemist who was more of an encyclopedist than a researcher.

Chemist, Encyclopedist, Researcher, Researchers

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