Fritz Pregl (1869-1930)

Awarded the Prize “for his invention of the method of micro-analysis of organic substances.”

Austrian chemist. Pregl was born at Laibach (now Ljubljana in Slovenia) on September 3, 1869. He received his M.D. in 1894 from Graz, where he became an assistant in physiological chemistry in 1899. In 1910 he became Head of the Chemistry Department at Innsbruck, remaining there until 1913 when he returned to Graz to become Director of the Medico-Chemical Institute, Vice-Chancellor of Graz University in 1920. On December 13, 1930, Pregl died in Graz.