CHEMIST

Leopold Ružička

1887 - 1976

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Leopold Ružička (Croatian pronunciation: [rǔʒitʃka]; born Lavoslav Stjepan Ružička; 13 September 1887 – 26 September 1976) was a Croatian-Swiss scientist and joint winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on polymethylenes and higher terpenes" "including the first chemical synthesis of male sex hormones." He worked most of his life in Switzerland, and received eight doctorates honoris causa in science, medicine, and law; seven prizes and medals; and twenty-four honorary memberships in chemical, biochemical, and other scientific societies. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leopold Ružička has received more than 176,889 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Leopold Ružička is the 94th most popular chemist (up from 115th in 2019), the 15th most popular biography from Croatia (up from 20th in 2019) and the most popular Croatian Chemist.

Leopold Ružička is most famous for his discovery of the Ružička reaction.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Leopold Ružička ranks 94 out of 602. Before him are Richard Kuhn, Edward Adelbert Doisy, Paul Hermann Müller, Hans von Euler-Chelpin, Frederick Gowland Hopkins, and Vladimir Prelog. After him are Marshall Warren Nirenberg, Katalin Karikó, Karl Ziegler, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Carl Ferdinand Cori, and Felix Hoffmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Leopold Ružička ranks 28. Before him are James B. Sumner, Felix Yusupov, Georg Trakl, Henry Moseley, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Ruth Benedict. After him are Nadia Boulanger, Wolfgang Köhler, Nikolai Vavilov, Gustav Ludwig Hertz, Lothar Rendulic, and August Macke. Among people deceased in 1976, Leopold Ružička ranks 23. Before him are J. Paul Getty, Joachim Peiper, Jacques Monod, Eyvind Johnson, Benjamin Britten, and Knud, Hereditary Prince of Denmark. After him are Zhu De, Raymond Queneau, Choe Yong-gon, Trofim Lysenko, Gustav Heinemann, and Alexander Calder.

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In Croatia

Among people born in Croatia, Leopold Ružička ranks 15 out of 700. Before him are Roger Joseph Boscovich (1711), Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1934), Pope John IV (600), Pope Caius (250), Laura Antonelli (1941), and Saint Marinus (275). After him are Crispus (305), Mario Andretti (1940), Andrija Mohorovičić (1857), Svetozar Boroević (1856), Aloysius Stepinac (1898), and Luka Modrić (1985).

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Among CHEMISTS In Croatia

Among chemists born in Croatia, Leopold Ružička ranks 1. After him are Leo Sternbach (1908).

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