Mayo Clinic Proceedings, April 1st, 2008
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 determine whether a partially asymmetrical compound is dextro or levo.
Prelog was born on July 23,1906, in the Serbian city of Sarajevo, Bosnia, which at that time was part of the Austrio-Hungarian Empire (it later became part of Yugoslavia and is currently an independent country). When World War I erupted in 1914...
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