Vladimir Prelog
1906-1998
Bosnian-born Swiss chemist best known for his work on the stereochemistry of organic molecules and reactions, for which he shared the 1975 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Prelog s...
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Vladimir Prelog, the son of Milan Prelog, a Croatian high school teacher, and his wife Mara (née Cettolo), was born on July 23, 1906 in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzogovina, a province of the Austro-Hu...
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Vladimir Prelog was born in 1906, to Milan and Mara (Cettolo) Prelog in Sarajevo, in what was then the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Prelog's early life in general was surrounded by the political upheava...
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