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Vladimir Prelog

1906 - 1998

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Vladimir Prelog (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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vladimir Prelog is the 69th most popular chemist (up from 93rd in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from Bosnia and Herzegovina (up from 13th in 2019) and the most popular Bosnian, Herzegovinian Chemist.

Vladimir Prelog was a chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1975 for his work on the stereochemistry of organic molecules.

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Among chemists, Vladimir Prelog ranks 69 out of 602. Before him are John Howard Northrop, Ilya Prigogine, Leopold Ružička, Wendell Meredith Stanley, Henry Hallett Dale, and Gerty Cori. After him are Gertrude B. Elion, Dorothy Hodgkin, William Giauque, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Karl Ziegler, and Hermann Staudinger.

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Among people born in 1906, Vladimir Prelog ranks 22. Before him are Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein, Estée Lauder, Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, Billy Wilder, and Henri Charrière. After him are Ernst Ruska, Albert Hofmann, Victor Vasarely, Roberto Rossellini, Hans Bethe, and Léopold Sédar Senghor. Among people deceased in 1998, Vladimir Prelog ranks 11. Before him are Alan Hodgkin, Jean Marais, Allan MacLeod Cormack, Vasily Arkhipov, Todor Zhivkov, and Ernst Jünger. After him are Carlos Castaneda, Octavio Paz, Jean-François Lyotard, Yang Shangkun, Florence Griffith Joyner, and Derek Barton.

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In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among people born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Vladimir Prelog ranks 9 out of 375. Before him are Ratko Mladić (1942), Valerius Severus (300), Sokollu Mehmed Pasha (1505), Alija Izetbegović (1925), Ante Pavelić (1889), and Emir Kusturica (1954). After him are Goran Bregović (1950), Zoran Đinđić (1952), Tvrtko I of Bosnia (1338), Vinko Puljić (1945), Slobodan Praljak (1945), and Lala Mustafa Pasha (1500).

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Among chemists born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Vladimir Prelog ranks 1. 

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