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Artturi Ilmari Virtanen

Born on January 15, 1895

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Artturi Ilmari Virtanen (Finnish:; 15 January 1895 – 11 November 1973) was a Finnish chemist and recipient of the 1945 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his research and inventions in agricultural and nutrition chemistry, especially for his fodder preservation method".

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