Vladimir Prelog, the son of Milan Prelog, a Croatian high school teacher, and his wife Mara (née Cettolo), was born on July 23, 1906 in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzogovina, a province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He served as a "flower boy" at the...

Vladimir Prelog was born in 1906, to Milan and Mara (Cettolo) Prelog in Sarajevo, in what was then the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Prelog's early life in general was surrounded by the political upheaval and war endemic to that part of the world. In...

(born July 23, 1906, Sarajevo, Bosnia, Austria-Hungary [now in Bosnia and Herzegovina]—died Jan. 7, 1998, Zürich, Switz.) Swiss chemist who shared the 1975 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with John W. Cornforth for his work on the stereochemistry...

1906-1998 Bosnian-born Swiss chemist best known for his work on the stereochemistry of organic molecules and reactions, for which he shared the 1975 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Prelog studied and worked in Bosnia and Croatia until forced to leave by the...

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Chemist Vladimir Prelog shared the 1975 Nobel Prize for chemistry with Sir John Warcup Comforth (1917- ) of the University of Sussex, in Brighton, Great Britain, for studies in the stereochemistry of organic molecules and reactions, specifically for the techniques and rules that can...

Vladimir Prelog, 91, who was born in Sarajevo when it was still part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work related to the three-dimensional structure of molecules involved in important reactions, died Jan. 7 in Switzerland....