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Fritz Pregl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (118 words) |
 | Fritz (Friderik) Pregl (September 3, 1869 – December 13, 1930) was an Austrian chemist of Slovenian descent. |
| He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1923 for making important contributions to quantitative organic microanalysis one of which was the improvement of the combustion train technique for elemental analysis. |
| Physician Friderik Pregl, Nobelist of Slovenian Descent, Zdravniški vestnik, 2001; 70: 399–404. |
| Fritz Pregl - Biography (719 words) |
| Fritz Pregl was born in Laibach* on September 3, 1869, and attended the local "Gymnasium" (grammar school), from where he proceeded to the University of Graz to study medicine. |
| Pregl continued with this work when he was recalled to Graz University in 1913; he was appointed Dean of the Medical Faculty for the year 1916-1917 and Vice-Chancellor of Graz University for 1920-1921. |
| Pregl had, in the early stages of his investigations, avoided publishing individual reports on his experiments, until he had convinced himself that his methods did not only work in his own, but also in other laboratories. |
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