CHEMIST

Vladimir Prelog

1906 - 1998

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Vladimir Prelog (23 July 1906 – 7 January 1998) was a Bosnian-Croatian-Swiss organic chemist who received the 1975 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his research into the stereochemistry of organic molecules and reactions. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vladimir Prelog has received more than 204,673 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Vladimir Prelog is the 93rd most popular chemist (up from 98th in 2019), the 13th most popular biography from Bosnia and Herzegovina (up from 15th 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

Among chemists, Vladimir Prelog ranks 93 out of 602. Before him are Michel Eugène Chevreul, Richard Kuhn, Edward Adelbert Doisy, Paul Hermann Müller, Hans von Euler-Chelpin, and Frederick Gowland Hopkins. After him are Leopold Ružička, Marshall Warren Nirenberg, Katalin Karikó, Karl Ziegler, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, and Carl Ferdinand Cori.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Vladimir Prelog ranks 42. Before him are Josef Kramer, Klaus Mann, Wassily Leontief, Dino Buzzati, Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, and Albert Sabin. After him are Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein, Marcel Carné, Clyde Tombaugh, Oleg Antonov, Empress Wanrong, and John Huston. Among people deceased in 1998, Vladimir Prelog ranks 13. Before him are Carlos Castaneda, Ernst Jünger, Octavio Paz, Jean-François Lyotard, Niklas Luhmann, and Yang Shangkun. After him are Raymond Cattell, Alan Shepard, Konstantinos Karamanlis, Theodore Schultz, Falco, and Frederick Reines.

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In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among people born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Vladimir Prelog ranks 13 out of 375. Before him are Goran Bregović (1950), Emir Kusturica (1954), Valerius Severus (300), Tvrtko I of Bosnia (1338), Lala Mustafa Pasha (1500), and Slobodan Praljak (1945). After him are Zoran Đinđić (1952), Biljana Plavšić (1930), Vahid Halilhodžić (1952), Miroslav Blažević (1935), Vukašin of Serbia (1320), and Ivica Osim (1941).

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Among CHEMISTS In Bosnia and Herzegovina

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

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