The Washington Post, January 18th, 1998
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. The cause of death was not reported. Dr. Prelog lived in Zagreb when he was a boy and received his doctorate in Prague. He did his prize-winning research in Zurich at the Federal Institute of Technology, where he became director of the Laboratory of Organic Chemistry. The work for which he shared the 1975 Nobel Prize with John ...
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