Leopold Ružička - Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1939
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Leopold Ružička

Prize
Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1939
for his work on polymethylenes and higher terpenes
Together with: Adolf Butenandt
Citizenship
SwitzerlandSwitzerlandCisleithaniaCisleithania
Languages
Croatian
date of birth
9/13/1887
place of birth
Vukovar
date of death
9/26/1976
place of death
Mammern
Lived
89 years

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occupation
  • university teacher
  • chemist
field of work
  • organic chemistry
  • biochemistry
educated at
  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  • III Gymnasium Osijek
employer
  • ETH Zurich
    • start time: 1918
    • end time: 1957
  • Utrecht University
    • start time: 11/10/1926
    • end time: 9/25/1929
work location
  • Zurich
  • Utrecht
member of
  • Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
    • start time: 3/22/1948
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 6/18/1942
  • Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten
  • Academy of Sciences of the USSR
  • Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1944
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 7/15/1948
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • Polish Academy of Sciences
  • Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
  • Pontifical Academy of Sciences
doctoral student
  • Jakob Schreiber
  • Albert Eschenmoser
  • George Büchi
  • Arie Jan Haagen-Smit
  • Moses Wolf Goldberg
  • Oskar Jeger
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