Paul Karrer's long and distinguished career in chemistry included the study of sugars and plant pigments, subjects that led him to the description and synthesis of vitamin A as well as several other vitamins. Karrer's work with vitamins helped to solve...

Paul Karrer's long and distinguished career in chemistry included the study of sugars and plant pigments , subjects that led him to the description and synthesis of vitamin A as well as several other vitamins. Karrer's work with vitamins helped to...

Paul Karrer was born in Moscow, Russia, on April 21, 1889, the son of Julie Lerch Karrer and Paul Karrer, a Swiss dentist who was practicing in Russia. At three years of age Karrer and his family returned to Switzerland. In 1908 he entered the...

1889-1971 Swiss chemist who won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1937 for determining the three-dimensional structures of numerous organic (carbon-containing) compounds. Karrer was the first to determine the structure of a vitamin, that of vitamin A....

Paul Karrer (April 21, 1889 – June 18, 1971) was a Swiss organic chemist best known for his work on vitamins. He and Walter Haworth won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in...

Karrer, Barbara Sunday, September 03, 2000 Karrer, Barbara (Nee Reis) Age 82. Died peacefully surrounded by her family on Aug. 31, 2000 at St. Camillus. Beloved wife of the late Charles "Chuck". Loving mother of Marlene Karrer, Kathleen (James) Turner, Patricia (Thomas)...

July 16, 1997, age 92 years. Of Brookfield. Beloved husband of the late Oleda (nee Jenson). Dear father of Jane (James) Larson of Antioch, IL, Judy (Charles) Maier of Pewaukee and Ronald (Eileen) Karrer of Wales. Further survived by 11 grandchildren, 8 great-grandchildren, a...