VLADIMIR PRELOG - LETTER - SIGNED - 1990 - CROATIAN CHEMIST - NOBEL PRIZE

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VLADIMIR PRELOG
Vintage, typed letter, 1 page,8 1/2" x 12", April 12, 1990,
Laboratorium Organische Chemie, Zurich, Switzerland letterhead
Signed: "V. Prelog"
Letter to an admirer
Letter to an admirer, in part:
"I was awarded the prize 'for the work on the stereochemistry of organic molecules and
reactions' and not for a single discovery. / My interest in stereochemistry developed
gradually during our investigations of the structure of natural compounds."
Condition: fine
Vladimir Prelog was a Croatian-Swiss organic chemist. He was the winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize
for chemistry for his research into the stereochemistry of organic molecules and reacton, sharing
it with Australian/British research chemist John Cornforth.
Born: 1906, Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary; died: 1998, Zurich, Switzerland.
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