Leopold Ružička
Leopold Ružička
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a Croatian scientist. He worked most of his life in Switzerland, and received eight doctor honoris causa in science, medicine, and law
Born
Lavoslav Stjepan Ružička 13 September 1887 Vukovar, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary (present-day Croatia )
Died
26 September 1976 (aged 89) Mammern, Switzerland
Known for
Terpenes
Fields
Biochemistry
Alma mater
Technische Hochschule Karlsruhe
Awards
Marcel Benoist Prize (1938) Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1939) Faraday Lectureship Prize (1958)
Institutions
ETH Zurich, Utrecht University
adultbasic
Switzerland
Citizenship
Hungarian-Croatian (1887–1917) Switzerland (1917–1976)
Doctoral advisor
Hermann Staudinger
Doctoral students
George Büchi Duilio Arigoni Arie Jan Haagen-Smit Moses Wolf Goldberg Klaus H. Hofmann George Rosenkranz Cyril Grob Edgar Heilbronner Albert Eschenmoser
era
1800+
Pronunciation
Croatian:
Thesis
Über Phenylmethylketen (1911)