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Vladimir Prelog
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Vladimir Prelog

1906 – 1998 · aged 92

Bosnian-Swiss chemist (1906-1998)

Born
23 Jul 1906 · Sarajevo
Died
7 Jan 1998 · Zurich
Part ofSwitzerland218 BCE – todayBosnia and Herzegovina1388 – todayAustria-Hungary1811 – 1918Kingdom of Yugoslavia1864 – 1945

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 106 years
  1. 23 Jul 1906BornBorn in Sarajevo
  2. 1949AwardCentenary Prize
  3. 1962AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
  4. 1963AwardDoctor honoris causa from the University of Paris
  5. 1964AwardMarcel Benoist Prize
  6. 1967AwardAugust Wilhelm von Hofmann Medal
  7. 1967AwardDavy Medal
  8. 1968AwardRobert Robinson Award
  9. 1969AwardRoger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry
  10. 1975AwardNobel Prize in Chemistry
  11. 1976AwardParacelsus Prize
  12. 1994AwardHonorary citizen of Osijek
  13. 7 Jan 1998DiedDied in Zurich

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1906 – 1998).

  1. 1914 – 1918World War I
  2. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  3. 1917Balfour Declaration
  4. 1917February Revolution
  5. 1917October Revolution
  6. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  7. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  8. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  9. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  10. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  11. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  12. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  13. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  14. 1938Munich Agreement
  15. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  16. 1939 – 1945World War II
  17. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  18. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  19. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  20. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  21. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  22. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  23. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  24. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  25. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  26. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  27. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  29. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  30. 1956Suez Crisis
  31. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  32. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  33. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  35. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  36. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  37. 1968Prague Spring
  38. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  39. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  40. 19741974 FIFA World Cup

Biography

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 spent his infancy, in Sarajevo, and youth in Zagreb, Osijek and Prague. He later lived and worked in Prague, Zagreb and Zürich.

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