Background
Prelog, Vladimir was born on July 23, 1906 in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Yugoslavia. Son of Milan and Mara (Cettolo) Prelog.
Prelog, Vladimir was born on July 23, 1906 in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Yugoslavia. Son of Milan and Mara (Cettolo) Prelog.
Chemical Engineering degree, Institute of Technology School Chemistry, Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1928. Doctor Chemical Engineering, Institute of Technology School Chemistry, Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1929. Doctor honoris causa, University Zagreb, Yugoslavia, 1954.
Doctor honoris causa, University Liverpool, England. Doctor honoris causa, University Paris, 1963. Doctor honoris causa, Cambridge University, University Brussels, 1969.
Doctor honoris causa, University Manchester, 1971. Doctor honoris causa, Institute Quim. Sarria, Barcelona, 1978.
Doctor honoris causa, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, 1985. Doctor honoris causa, University Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, 1989. Doctor honoris causa, University Osijek, Yugoslavia, 1989.
Doctor honoris causa, University Chemical Technology, Prague, 1992. Doctor honoris cause(honorary), University Sarajevo, 1996.
Chemist, Laboratory G.J. Dríza, Prague, 1929-1935; docent, U. Zagreb, 1935-1940; associate professor, U. Zagreb, 1940-1941; member of faculty, Swiss Federal Institute Technology, Zurich, since 1942; professor of chemistry, Swiss Federal Institute Technology, Zurich, since 1950; head Laboratory Organic Chemistry,, Swiss Federal Institute Technology, Zurich, 1957-1965; retired, Swiss Federal Institute Technology, Zurich, 1976. Board director Chemical Industries Basel Geigy Ltd., Basel, Switzerland, 1963-1978.
Fellow Royal Society. Member American Academy Arts and Sciences (honorary), National Academy of Sciences (foreign associate), Academy dei Lincei (Rome)(foreign), Leopoldina, Halle/Saale, Academy of Sciences Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics (foreign), Royal Irish Academy (honorary), Royal Danish Academy of Sciences (honorary), Academy Pharmaceutical Sciences (honorary), American Philosophical Society, Academy of Sciences (Paris)(foreign), Pontificia Academy of Sciences (Rome), Russian Academy of Sciences (foreign).
Married Kamila Vítek, October 31, 1933. 1 child, January.