Oral history interview with Vladimir Prelog, 1984 January 17

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Oral history interview with Vladimir Prelog, 1984 January 17

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In this interview Vladimir Prelog discusses his career as an organic chemist. Prelog describes a thirty five year long affiliation with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH). This includes work with the chemistry of natural products and with stereochemistry, and his creation (with Cahn and Ingold) of the CIP system for defining absolute configuration.

Sound files ; digital, mp3 fileTranscript : (38 leaves) ; 29 cm.

Chemical Heritage Foundation, Othmer Library of Chemical History

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Chemical Heritage Foundation, Othmer Library of Chemical History

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Born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia on 23 July 1906. Died on 7 January 1998. Education: D.Sc., Chemistry, Prague Institute of Technology (1929). Employment: 1929-1935 Laboratory of G. J. Dríza, Prague; 1935-1941 Technical Faculty of Zagreb University; 1942-1965 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich. From the description of Oral history interview with Vladimir Prelog, 1984 January 17 (Chemical Heritage Foundation). WorldCat record id: 710362905 ...