Vladimir Prelog:
Vladimir Prelog was a Swiss-Croatian organic chemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
July 23, 1906 in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Austria-Hungary
Death:
January 7, 1998 in Zürich, Switzerland
Claim to Fame:
Prelog was a Swiss-Croatian organic chemist who was awarded half the 1975 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research into the stereochemistry of natural compounds and reactions. He made contributions to the study of stereoisomerism. Stereoisomerism is where two compounds have identical chemical compositions but are mirror-images of each other. He named the right-handed compound "dextra" and the left-handed compound "levo".
