Vladimir Prelog

Vladimir Prelog (July 23 1906 - January 7 1998) was a renowned chemist from Croatia who worked in Prague, Zagreb and Zurich and who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1975.

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Prelog was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, at that time within the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1915, as a child, Prelog moved to Zagreb. Educated in Zagreb and Osijek, he graduated from the Czech Institute of Technology in Prague (Praha) in 1929, receiving a degree as a chemical engineer. His teacher was Emil Voto?ek, while his assistant Rudolf Luke? introduced him to the world of organic chemistry.

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