Slovene-Austrian Nobel prize laureate and scientist

Fritz Pregl (Slovene: Friderik Pregl; 3 September 1869 – 13 December 1930), was a Slovenian-Austrian chemist and physician from a mixed Slovene-German-speaking background. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1923 for making important contributions to quan*ative organic micro*ysis, one of which was the improvement of the combustion train technique for elemental *ysis.

Contents

• 1 Biography
• 2 Commemoration
• 3 References
• 4 Further reading
• 5 External links

Biography

Pregl's birthplace on Gentry Street (Gosposka ulica), Ljubljana

Pregl was born in Ljubljana within Austria-Hungary to a Slovene-speaking father and German-speaking mother. He was baptized Friedrich Michael Raimund Pregl. He died in Graz, Austria in 1930.

Pregl started his career as chemist after he studied medicine at the University of Graz. With his focus on physiology and especially chemical physiology, he suffered from the limitations of quan*ative organic micro*ysis. The small quan*ies of substances he obtained during the research of bile acid made it necessary to improve the process of elemental *ysis by reducing the necessary components. At the end of his research, he had lowered the minimal amount of substance necessary for the *ysis process by a factor of 50. He invited chemists to learn his method of elemental *ysis, so that the method was soon widely accepted.

Commemoration

In 1950, the department of the University of Graz where Fritz Pregl had worked was named the Ins*ute of Medical Chemistry and Pregl Laboratory. Streets in Graz, Innsbruck, Vienna and Klagenfurt were named after him. In Slovenia, Pregl Awards have been bestowed annually since 2007 by the National Ins*ute of Chemistry for the research work and for outstanding doctorates. Slovenian pupils are conferred Pregl Recognition Awards, whereas secondary school students are conferred Pregl Citations for excellent results in national compe*ions in chemistry. A square in Ljubljana is named after Pregl. The Fritz Pregl Prize has been awarded annually since 1931 in chemistry by the Austrian Academy of Sciences from the funds left at its disposal by Pregl.

Memorial to Fritz Pregl in Toscanini Park, Ljubljana, Slovenia

References

Further reading

• Zupanič-Slavec, Zvonka (2001). "Zdravnik Friderik Pregl, nobelov nagrajenec slovenskega rodu" (PDF). Zdravniški vestnik. Slovenian Medical *ociation (70): 399–404. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2005-09-07. Retrieved 2005-06-01.
• H. Lieb (1950). "Zum Gedächtnis an Fritz Pregl, den Begründer der quan*ativen organischen Mikro*yse (1869–1930)". Chemistry and Materials Science. 35 (2–3): 123–129. doi:10.1007/BF01460581. S2CID:101608428.

External links

• Fritz Pregl on Nobelprize.org including the Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1923 Quan*ative Micro-*ysis of Organic Substances