Heinrich Otto Wieland:
Heinrich Otto Wieland was a German biochemist who was awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Birth:
June 4, 1877 in Württemberger, Germany
Death:
August 5, 1957 in Starnberg, Germany
Claim to Fame:
Heinrich Otto Wieland was a German chemist who was awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research into the bile acids. He found three bile acids: cholic acid, deoxycholic acid and lithocholic acid were all steroids that are convertible into cholanic acid.
