Artturi ilmari virtanen biography of barack

(b. Helsinki, Finland, 15 January 1895; d.

Artturi ilmari virtanen biography of barack

Helsinki 11 November 1973), biochemistry.

Virtanen, the son of Kaarlo and Serafina Isotalo Virtanen, received his elementary education at the classical lyceum in Viipuri (now Vyborg, R.S.F.S.R.), after which he entered the University of Helsinki.

He received the Master of Science degree in 1916 and for a year served as first assistant in the Central Industrial Laboratory in Helsinki, then returned to the university for the doctorate, which he obtained in 1919. Virtanen did work in physical chemistry at Zurich in 1920, in bacteriology at Stockholm in 1921, and in enzymology at Stockholm with Euler-Chelpin in 1923 and 1924.

Between 1918 and 1920 he was associated with laboratories for the control of butter and cheese manufacture, and from 1921 to 1931 he was director of the laboratories of the Finnish Cooperative Dairies Association. In 1931 Virtanen became director of the Biochemical Research Institute at He