Fritz Pregl

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Fritz Pregl
Born	(1869-09-03)3 September 1869 Laibach, Duchy of Carniola, Cisleithania, Austria-Hungary (now Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Died	13 December 1930(1930-12-13) (aged 61) Graz, Styria, Austria
Nationality	Austria-Hungary
Alma mater	University of Graz
Occupation(s)	Graz circuit forensic chemist (1907) Dean of the Graz University Medical Faculty (1916-1917) Vice Chancellor of Graz University (1920-1921)
Known for	Microelemental analysis
Awards	Lieben Prize (1914) Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1923)
Scientific career
Fields	Chemistry, medicine
Institutions	University of Graz, University of Innsbruck
Doctoral advisor	Alexander Rollett[citation needed]

Fritz Pregl (Slovene: Friderik Pregl; 3 September 1869 – 13 December 1930), was a Slovenian-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.