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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1975
John Cornforth, Vladimir Prelog

Vladimir Prelog - Facts

Vladimir Prelog

Vladimir Prelog

Born: 23 July 1906, Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary (now Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Died: 7 January 1998, Zurich, Switzerland

Affiliation at the time of the award: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Zurich, Switzerland

Prize motivation: "for his research into the stereochemistry of organic molecules and reactions"

Field: Organic chemistry, stereochemistry

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