Hans von Euler-Chelpin, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1929

Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin (15 February 1873 – 6 November 1964) was a German-born Swedish biochemist. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1929 with Arthur Harden for their investigations on the fermentation of sugar and fermentative enzymes.

He was professor of general and organic chemistry at Stockholm University 1906-1941 and director of its Institute for organic-chemical research 1938-1948.

von Euler-Chelpin was married to the botanist and geologist Astrid Cleve (daughter of the Uppsala chemist Per Teodor Cleve) and was the great-great-great grandson of Leonhard Euler and father of Ulf von Euler, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1970.

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Tysk-svensk kemist och Nobelpristagare i kemi år 1929. Han skrev sig själv ofta Hans Euler.

Han var i Sverige verksam vid Stockholms högskola, från 1906 som professor. Under första världskriget tjänstgjorde han som tysk officer, först i artilleriet och sedan i flygtjänst.