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Vladimir Prelog

Bosnia and Herzegovina has another Nobel prize winner. That is Vladimir Prelog who received this highest international award for science in 1975.

Vladimir Prelog was born in 1906 in Sarajevo, who was at the time within the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

He finished high school in Zagreb and received his university degree from the Czech Institute for Technology in Prague in 1929.

The university and research and scientific carrier of Vladimir Prelog was closely tied to the great scientist Leopold Ruzicka, who was his professor in the studies.

Ruzicka saved Prelog in the beginning of World War II by inviting him to work in the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH), where he completely developed his scientific potential, based on which in 1975 he split a reward for chemistry with the Australian scientist J.W. Cornforth.

Vladimir Prelog died on 7 January 1989.