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Vladimir Prelog

Scientist · born July 23, 1906 · died 1998

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Vladimir Prelog 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.

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  1. ~61Received the Davy Medal1967
  2. ~69Received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry1975

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