Artturi Ilmari Virtanen:
Artturi Ilmari Virtanen was a Finnish biochemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
January 15, 1895 in Helsinki, Finland
Death:
November 11, 1973 in Helsinki, Finland
Claim to Fame:
Virtanen was a Finnish biochemist who was awarded the 1945 Nobel Prize for his work and inventions in agricultural and nutrition chemistry. He developed a method to preserve grain silage by increasing the acidity of stored grains. The AIV (named after his initials) fodder technique is an additive that is sprayed on stored grains to raise the acidity of the grain to stop the fermentation that spoils the grain while in storage without destroying the nutritive value.
