Fritz Pregl

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Fritz Pregl
Fritz Pregl
Born	September 3, 1896(1896-09-03) Laibach, Austria Hungary (today Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Died	December 13 1930 (aged 83) Graz, Austria
Citizenship	Austria-Hungary then Austria
Fields	chemistry, medicine
Institutions	University of Graz, University of Innsbruck
Alma mater	University of Graz
Doctoral advisor	Wilhelm Ostwald, Emil Fischer, Alexander Rollett
Known for	microelemental analysis
Notable awards	Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1923)

Fritz (Friderik) Pregl (September 3, 1869 – December 13, 1930) was an Austrian-Slovene physician and chemist. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1923 for making important contributions to quantitative organic microanalysis, one of which was the improvement of the combustion train technique for elemental analysis.

Pregl was born to Slovene father and German mother in Laibach (Ljubljana) within Austria-Hungary. He died in Graz, Austria.

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Pregl started his career as physician after he studied medicine at the University of Graz. With his focus on physiology and especially chemical physiology he suffered from the limitations of quantitative organic microanalysis. The small quantities of substances he obtained during the research of Bile acid made it necessary improve the elemental analysis. At the end of his research he had lowered the minimum of substance necessary for analysis by a factor of 50. He invited chemists to learn his method of elemental analysis, so that the method was soon widely accepted.

[edit] References

• Fritz Pregl - Biography. Nobel Foundation. Retrieved on 2008-04-20.
• Zupanič-Slavec, Zvonka (2001). "Zdravnik Friderik Pregl, nobelov nagrajenec slovenskega rodu". Zdravniški vestnik (70). Slovenian Medical Association. 
• H. Lieb (1950). "Zum Gedächtnis an Fritz Pregl, den Begründer der quantitativen organischen Mikroanalyse (1869–1930)". Chemistry and Materials Science 35 (2-3): 123-129. doi:10.1007/BF01460581. 

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