Artturi Ilmari Virtanen
18951973
Finnish chemist and professor awarded the 1945 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research and inventions in agricultural and nutrition chemistry, especially for his fodder preservation method
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18951973
Finnish chemist and professor awarded the 1945 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research and inventions in agricultural and nutrition chemistry, especially for his fodder preservation method
18321901
Finland-Swedish baron, geologist, mineralogist, and Arctic explorer renowned for achieving the first complete transit of the Northeast Passage
19081979
Finnish writer best known for his best-selling novel "The Egyptian," Mika Waltari was a prolific author across poetry, short stories, crime novels, plays, essays, and film scripts