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Vladimir Prelog

1906 - 1998

Vladimir Prelog

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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vladimir Prelog has received more than 194,527 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). Vladimir Prelog is the 98th most popular chemist (down from 65th in 2019), the 15th most popular biography from Bosnia and Herzegovina (down from 12th 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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64.13
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
59
Languages Editions (L)
9.09
Effective Languages (L*)
3.43
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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Vladimir Prelog ranks 98 out of 509. Before him are Edward Adelbert Doisy, Harold Urey, Paul Hermann Müller, Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Manfred Eigen, and Norman Haworth. After him are Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, Gerhard Ertl, Yves Chauvin, Willard Libby, James B. Sumner, and John Newlands.

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Edward Adelbert Doisy
1893 - 1986
HPI: 64.32
Rank: 92
Harold Urey
1893 - 1981
HPI: 64.32
Rank: 93
Paul Hermann Müller
1899 - 1965
HPI: 64.29
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Artturi Ilmari Virtanen
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HPI: 64.28
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Manfred Eigen
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HPI: 64.27
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Norman Haworth
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HPI: 64.17
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Vladimir Prelog
1906 - 1998
HPI: 64.13
Rank: 98
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HPI: 64.11
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HPI: 63.91
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HPI: 63.89
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Willard Libby
1908 - 1980
HPI: 63.88
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James B. Sumner
1887 - 1955
HPI: 63.87
Rank: 103
John Newlands
1837 - 1898
HPI: 63.85
Rank: 104

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Vladimir Prelog ranks 44. Before him are James E. Webb, Hans Bethe, Dino Buzzati, Marcelo Caetano, Philip Johnson, and Robert E. Howard. After him are Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein, Oleg Antonov, Marie José of Belgium, Clyde Tombaugh, Bugsy Siegel, and Klaus Mann. Among people deceased in 1998, Vladimir Prelog ranks 14. Before him are Carlos Castaneda, Jean-François Lyotard, Yang Shangkun, Octavio Paz, Alan Shepard, and Niklas Luhmann. After him are Raymond Cattell, Konstantinos Karamanlis, Theodore Schultz, Frederick Reines, Otto Kretschmer, and Vasily Arkhipov.

Others Born in 1906

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James E. Webb
1906 - 1992
HPI: 65.95
Rank: 38
Hans Bethe
1906 - 2005
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 39
Dino Buzzati
1906 - 1972
HPI: 65.27
Rank: 40
Marcelo Caetano
1906 - 1980
HPI: 64.98
Rank: 41
Philip Johnson
1906 - 2005
HPI: 64.36
Rank: 42
Robert E. Howard
1906 - 1936
HPI: 64.36
Rank: 43
Vladimir Prelog
1906 - 1998
HPI: 64.13
Rank: 44
Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein
1906 - 1989
HPI: 64.03
Rank: 45
Oleg Antonov
1906 - 1984
HPI: 63.99
Rank: 46
Marie José of Belgium
1906 - 2001
HPI: 63.95
Rank: 47
Clyde Tombaugh
1906 - 1997
HPI: 63.75
Rank: 48
Bugsy Siegel
1906 - 1947
HPI: 63.55
Rank: 49
Klaus Mann
1906 - 1949
HPI: 63.49
Rank: 50