Swiss chemist who shared the 1975 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with John
W. Cornforth for his work on the stereochemistry of organic molecules
and reactions. Prelog was born in Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina), received early training at the University of Zagreb, then the Ph.D. at the Institute of Technology in Prague (1929). After a time on the faculty at Zagreb he moved to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, where he, as director of the organic laboratory, followed in a long line of Nobelists (Willstatter, Staudinger, Kuhn and Ruzicka). Prelog was a superb teacher and lecturer, and was the recipient of many honors, among them the 1967 Davy Medal of the Royal Society and the 1969 Roger Adams Award of the ACS, in a long career. |
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