Lavoslav Stjepan Ružička:
Lavoslav Stjepan Ružička was a Swiss-Hungarian biochemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
September 13, 1887 in Vukovar, Croatia, Austria-Hungary
Death:
September 26, 1976 in Zürich, Switzerland
Claim to Fame:
Ružička was a Swiss-Hungarian biochemist who was awarded half the 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on polymethylenes or cyclic alkanes and terpenes. He worked in the perfume industry investigating the compounds that make up the scent from musk deer and civet cats. He also investigated and determined the structure of the sex hormones androsterone and testosterone.
