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.

Private life

As a private person, he was the source of anecdotes about almost all eminent chemists all over the world. An intellectual with a wide cultural background, he never insisted on authority and was unused to confrontation. As an introspective person, ironical and suspicious of high social, political or religious aspirations, Prelog rarely allowed people insight into his inner life. He was one of the 109 Nobel Prize winners who signed the peace appeal for Croatia in 1991.

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Vladimir Prelog died in Zurich, (Switzerland), at the age of 92. An urn containing Prelog's ashes was ceremoniously interred at the Mirogoj cemetery in Zagreb on September 27th, 2001.

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Zurich - Switzerland - Zagreb - September 27 - 2001

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