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| | BookRags: Paul Karrer Biography |
 | | In 1937 Karrer shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for research that incorporated the vitamins A and B. Paul Karrer was born in Moscow, Russia, on April 21, 1889, the son of Julie Lerch Karrer and Paul Karrer, a Swiss dentist who was practicing in Russia. |
 | | At three years of age Karrer and his family returned to Switzerland, initially to Zürich, but later settling in the canton, of Aargau, a region in the north of the country. |
 | | Aside from the Nobel, Karrer won numerous awards and prizes, among them the Marcel Benoist Prize from Switzerland in 1923, the Cannizzaro Prize from Italy in 1935, and the Officier de la Legion d'Honneur from France in 1954. |
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