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Leopold Ružička
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Leopold Ružička

Scientist · born September 13, 1887 · died 1976

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Leopold Ružička was a Croatian-Swiss scientist and joint winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on polymethylenes and higher terpenes" "including the first chemical synthesis of male sex hormones."

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  1. ~52Received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry1939

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