page_title: Fritz Pregl
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Fritz Pregl / Biography
caption_attribution_description: Slovenščina: Rojstna hiša nobelovca Friderika Pregla na Gosposki ulici v Ljubljani (Gosposka ulica 19). Na pročelju je doprsni kip znanstvenika. English: Birth house of the Nobel prize winner Fritz Pregl at Gosposka st., Ljubljana (19 Gosposka ulica). The scientist's bust is mounted at the front.
context_page_description: Fritz Pregl, was a Slovenian and 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 quantitative organic microanalysis, one of which was the improvement of the combustion train technique for elemental analysis.
context_section_description: Pregl was born in Ljubljana within Austria-Hungary to a Slovene-speaking father and German-speaking mother. 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 quantitative organic microanalysis. The small quantities of substances he obtained during the research of bile acid made it necessary to improve the process of elemental analysis by reducing the necessary components. At the end of his research, he had lowered the minimal amount of substance necessary for the analysis process by a factor of 50. He invited chemists to learn his method of elemental analysis, so that the method was soon widely accepted.
caption: Pregl's birthplace on Gentry Street (Gosposka ulica), Ljubljana
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