Fritz Pregl:
Fritz Pregl was an Austrian physician, chemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
September 3, 1869 in Laibach, Austria-Hungary (present day Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Death:
December 13, 1930 in Graz, Austria
Claim to Fame:
Pregl was an Austrian physician and chemist who was awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his method of micro-analysis of organic substances. While he was researching bile acids, he had difficulty using the analytic techniques of the time to determine the elemental makeup of his samples. He improved the techniques such that there were fewer steps and less sample was needed. He also developed a sensitive micro-balance and new ways to identify functional groups.
