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prelog, vladimir

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Pre·log   (prěl'ōg')   
Bosnian-born Swiss chemist. He shared a 1975 Nobel Prize for research on the structure of biological molecules.
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Prelog, Vladimir

Swiss chemist who shared the 1975 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with John W. Cornforth for his work on the stereochemistry of organic molecules and reactions. (Stereochemistry is the study of the three-dimensional arrangements of atoms within molecules.)

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