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Prelog

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[prel-awg, -og] / ˈprɛl ɔg, -ɒg /

noun

  1. Vladimir 1906–98, Swiss chemist, born in Yugoslavia: Nobel Prize 1975.


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In other words, the question that the Nobel Prize winner in chemistry and ETH chemist Vladimir Prelog described as "one of the first problems of molecular theology" in his Nobel Prize lecture in 1975.

From Science Daily • Feb. 20, 2024

Cornforth's work on how enzymes activate changes in organic compounds earned him a Nobel Prize in 1975 with co-luareate Vladimir Prelog.

From Time • Sep. 7, 2017

Cornforth, who has been deaf since boyhood, concentrated on enzymes�the catalysts for chemical reactions in living things�while Prelog studied other organic molecules, including antibiotics.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cornforth, an Australian-born researcher now at the University of Sussex, and Yugoslav-born Prelog, of Zurich's Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, helped define the three-dimensional structure of organic molecules.

From Time Magazine Archive