Vladimir Prelog

Vladimir Prelog
Born(1906-07-23)23 July 1906[2]
Sarajevo, Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria-Hungary
Died7 January 1998(1998-01-07) (aged 91)
Zürich, Switzerland
Alma materCzech Technical University in Prague (Sc.D, 1929)
Known for
Spouse
Kamila Vitek
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(m. 1933)​
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsBiochemistry
Institutions
Doctoral advisorEmil Votoček[citation needed]

Vladimir Prelog ForMemRS[1] (23 July 1906 – 7 January 1998) was a Croatian-Swiss organic chemist who received the 1975 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his research into the stereochemistry of organic molecules and reactions. Prelog was born, and spent his infancy, in Sarajevo, and youth in Zagreb, Osijek and Prague.[3] He later lived and worked in Prague, Zagreb and Zürich.[2]: 2 [4][5]

  1. ^ a b Arigoni, D.; Dunitz, J. D.; Eschenmoser, A. (2000). "Vladimir Prelog. 23 July 1906 – 7 January 1998: Elected For.Mem.R.S. 1962". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 46: 443. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1999.0095.
  2. ^ a b Seiwerth, Rativoj (30 October 1995). "Prelog's Zagreb School of Organic Chemistry (1935 – 1945)*" (pdf). CROATICA CHEMICA ACTA (CCACAA 69 (2) 379–397 (1996)). Portal of Croatian scientific and professional journals - HRČAK. ISSN 0011-1643. Retrieved 15 September 2024.
  3. ^ Vladimir Prelog (1975) Autobiography, the Nobel Committee.
  4. ^ James, Laylin K. (2006). Nobel Laureates in Chemistry, 1901–1992. American Chemical Society & Chemical Heritage Foundation. ISBN 0-8412-2459-5.
  5. ^ Dunitz, J. D. (1998). "Obituary: Vladimir Prelog (1906–98)". Nature. 391 (6667): 542. Bibcode:1998Natur.391..542D. doi:10.1038/35279. S2CID 4374006.