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Artturi Ilmari Virtanen
Finnish chemist and professor
Artturi Ilmari Virtanen (Finnish:[ˈɑrtːuriˈʔilmɑriˈʋirtɑnen]ⓘ; 15 January 1895 – 11 November 1973) was a Finnish chemist and recipient of the 1945 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his research and inventions in agricultural and nutrition chemistry, especially for his fodder preservation method".[1]
He invented AIV silage which improved milk production and a method of preserving butter, the AIV salt, which led to increased Finnish butter exports.[2]
Personal life
Artturi Ilmari Virtanen was born on 15 January 1895, in Helsinki, Finland .
He is the son of Kaarlo Virtanen, a railway engine driver and Serafina Isotalo.[3]
He completed his school education at the Classical Lyceum in Viipuri, Finland. He married the botanist Lilja Moisio (1894-1972) in 1920 and had two sons with her.[4]
In 1933, he bought a farm near Helsinki where he tested some of his scientific results in p