Updated at November 17, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Vladimir Prelog |
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Birthdate | July 23, 1906 |
Birth Place | Bosnia And Herzegovina |
Age (in 2024) | 118 Years Old |
Zodiac | Leo |
Occupation | Chemist |
Vladimir Prelog is best known as Chemist who has born on July 23, 1906 in Bosnia And Herzegovina. Currently, Vladimir Prelog is 118 years, 3 months and 25 days old. Vladimir Prelog will celebrate 119th birthday on Wednesday, 23rd of July 2025. Below the countdown to Vladimir Prelog upcoming birthday.
Organic chemist who won the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize in Chemistry for his research into the stereochemistry of organic molecules and reaction. Due to his pioneering efforts Zürich has become one of the most significant centers of modern organic chemistry.
He became interested in chemistry while attending the Osijek gymnasium and had his first scientific writing published when he was sixteen years old.
He researched quinine and its compounds, going on to be responsible for the scientific work that allowed for adamantane to be synthesized.
He married Kamila Vitak in 1933 and they had a son named Jan in 1949.
He is Swiss-Croatian, and Daniel Bovet is also a Swiss scientist.
Vladimir Prelog is 118 years old today.
Vladimir Prelog was born on July 23, 1906 in Bosnia And Herzegovina.
Vladimir Prelog zodiac sign is Leo.
Vladimir Prelog was best known as Chemist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Vladimir Prelog's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
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1992 | A Vatican commission, led by Joseph Ratzinger, establishes that limiting certain rights of homosexual people and non-married couples is not equivalent to discrimination on grounds of race or gender. |
1992 | Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia. |
1993 | China Northwest Airlines Flight 2119 crashes during takeoff from Yinchuan Xihuayuan Airport in Yinchuan, Ningxia, China, killing 55 people. |
1995 | Comet Hale-Bopp is discovered; it becomes visible to the naked eye on Earth nearly a year later. |
1997 | Digital Equipment Corporation files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel. |
1999 | ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan by Yuji Nishizawa. |
1999 | Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-93, with Eileen Collins becoming the first female space shuttle commander. The shuttle also carried and deployed the Chandra X-ray Observatory. |
2005 | Three bombs explode in the Naama Bay area of Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people. |
2010 | English-Irish boy band One Direction is formed by judge Simon Cowell on The X Factor (British series 7), later going on to finish at third place. It would go on to become one of the biggest boy bands in the world, and would be very influential on pop music of the 2010s. |
2011 | A high-speed train rear-ends another on a viaduct on the Yongtaiwen railway line in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, China, resulting in 40 deaths. |
2012 | The Solar storm of 2012 was an unusually large coronal mass ejection that was emitted by the Sun which barely missed the Earth by nine days. If it hit, it would have caused up to US$2.6 trillion in damages to electrical equipment worldwide. |
2014 | TransAsia Airways Flight 222 crashes in Xixi village near Huxi, Penghu, during approach to Phengu Airport. Forty-eight of the 58 people on board are killed and five more people on the ground are injured. |
2015 | NASA announces discovery of Kepler-452b by Kepler. |
2016 | Kabul twin bombing occurred in the vicinity of Deh Mazang when protesters, mostly from the Shiite Hazara minority, were marching against route changing of the TUTAP power project. At least 80 people were killed and 260 were injured. |
2018 | A wildfire in East Attica, Greece caused the death of 102 people. It was the deadliest wildfire in history of Greece and the second-deadliest in the world, in the 21st century, after the 2009 bushfires in Australia that killed 180. |
1986 | The birth of Aya Uchida, Japanese voice actress and singer |
1986 | The birth of Nelson Philippe, French race car driver |
1986 | The birth of Yelena Sokolova, Russian long jumper |
1987 | The birth of Alessio Cerci, Italian footballer |
1987 | The birth of Felipe Dylon, Brazilian singer |
1987 | The birth of Serdar Kurtuluş, Turkish footballer |
1989 | The birth of Daniel Radcliffe, English actor |
1989 | The birth of Donald Young, American tennis player |
1990 | The birth of Kevin Reynolds, Canadian figure skater |
1991 | The birth of Lauren Mitchell, Australian gymnast |
1991 | The birth of Jarrod Wallace, Australian rugby league footballer |
1992 | The birth of Danny Ings, English footballer |
1996 | The birth of Alexandra Andresen, Norwegian heiress and equestrian |
1996 | The birth of David Dobrik, Slovak YouTube personality |
2002 | The birth of Séléna Janicijevic, French tennis player |
2013 | The death of Rona Anderson, Scottish actress (b. 1926) |
2013 | The death of Pauline Clarke, English author (b. 1921) |
2013 | The death of Arthur J. Collingsworth, American diplomat (b. 1944) |
2013 | The death of Dominguinhos, Brazilian singer-songwriter and accordion player (b. 1941) |
2013 | The death of Emile Griffith, American boxer and trainer (b. 1938) |
2013 | The death of Kim Jong-hak, South Korean director and producer (b. 1951) |
2013 | The death of Djalma Santos, Brazilian footballer (b. 1929) |
2014 | The death of Dora Bryan, English actress and restaurateur (b. 1923) |
2014 | The death of Norman Leyden, American composer and conductor (b. 1917) |
2014 | The death of Ariano Suassuna, Brazilian author and playwright (b. 1927) |
2014 | The death of Jordan Tabor, English footballer (b. 1990) |
2015 | The death of Shigeko Kubota, Japanese-American sculptor and director (b. 1937) |
2015 | The death of Don Oberdorfer, American journalist, author, and academic (b. 1931) |
2015 | The death of William Wakefield Baum, American cardinal (b. 1926) |
2017 | The death of John Kundla, American basketball coach (b. 1916) |
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