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Authorised form of nameRuzicka; Leopold (1887 - 1976)
Dates1887 - 1976
NationalityCroatian
Swiss
Place of birthVukovar, Austria-Hungary [later in Yugoslavia then Croatia]
Date of birth13 September 1887
Place of deathMammern, Switzerland
Date of death26/09/1976
Research fieldStructural organic chemistry
Biochemistry
ActivityMedals and prizes:
Nobel Prize (Chemistry) 1939
Membership categoryForeign Member
Date of election18/06/1942
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB vol 18 pp 764-765
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1980 vol 26 pp 411-501, plate, by Vladimir Prelog and Oskar Jeger
CodeNA2212
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1942/23Ruzicka, Leopold: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MDA/A/12/39Letter from Robert Robinson to Borcham, The Royal Societyc July 1946
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