Editing Artturi Ilmari Virtanen (section)

==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.<ref>{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|access-date=17 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> 

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.<ref name="NP"/>

In 1933, he bought a farm near Helsinki where he tested some of his scientific results in practice.<ref name="KB"/> He saw in the overproduction of food only a temporary phenomenon. He lived a simple life, he never had a car of his own, never smoked and never consumed alcohol. He died of pneumonia in November 1973, following a broken femur from a fall few weeks prior. He was buried at the [[Hietaniemi Cemetery]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Hietaniemen hautausmaa – merkittäviä vainajia|url=https://www.helsinginseurakunnat.fi/material/attachments/hautausmaat/hietaniemi/w8GZkM0y7/Hietaniemen_merkittavia_vainajia.pdf |publisher=Helsingin seurakuntayhtymä |access-date= 30 November 2017}}</ref>