Artturi Ilmari Virtanen was a Finnish biochemist who discovered many of the nutritionally important components of plants, including vitamins and amino acids. His most important discovery, a method of ...
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Artturi Ilmari Virtanen was born January 15, 1895, in Helsinki, Finland. He began his education at the Classical Lyceum in Viipuri (now Vyborg, Russia). Upon graduation, he entered the University of H...
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