Swiss organic chemist who synthesized various vitamins and determined their structural formulas, for which he shared the 1937 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. He also worked on vegetable dyes. Karrer was born in Moscow but grew up in Switzerland. He studied at
Zurich, was professor at the Zurich Chemical Institute from 1918 and
its director 1919-59.
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