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    Leopold Ružička ForMemRS (Croatian pronunciation: [rǔʒitʃka]; born Lavoslav Stjepan Ružička; 13 September 1887 – 26 September 1976) was a Croatian-Swiss...
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  • chemicals and essential oils. The 1939 Nobel Laureate for Chemistry, Leopold Ružička stated in 1945 that "right from the earliest days of scientific chemistry...
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    (1966). "Leopold Ružička". Nobel Lectures, Chemistry: 1922-1941. Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishing Company. Now available from "Leopold Ružička Biography"...
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  • [ˈruːʒɪtʃka], feminine Růžičková) is a Czech surname. Ružička (feminine Ružičková) is a Slovak surname. Adam Ružička (born 1999), Slovak ice hockey player Andrea...
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    Austrian urologist Leopold Ružička (1887–1976), Croatian-Swiss scientist Leopold Saverio Vaccaro, American surgeon and scientist Leopold Schenk (1840–1902)...
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    ketenes and of the Staudinger reaction. Staudinger, together with Leopold Ružička, also elucidated the molecular structures of pyrethrin I and II in...
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    Humulus lupulus (hop) It was first synthesized in the laboratory of Leopold Ružička in 1919. In higher plants linalool is formed by rearrangement of geranyl...
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    compound found in musk; the structure of both compounds was elucidated by Leopold Ružička. Today, civetone can be synthesized from precursor chemicals found...
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    acid. White crystals of a terpenoid known as ambrein, discovered by Leopold Ružička and Fernand Lardon in 1946, can be separated from ambergris by heating...
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    Zaharije Orfelin, Serbian polymath Pavao Pavličić, Croatian novelist Leopold Ružička, Nobel prize winner in chemistry Vladimir Štengl, Former Member of...
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    of the structures of pyrethrin I and II by Hermann Staudinger and Leopold Ružička in the 1920s. The pyrethroids represented a major advancement in the...
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  • Medicine, Literature, and Economics – in all fields except Peace. Leopold Ružička (Chemistry 1939) born in Vukovár (until 1920 in Hungary), Syrmia County...
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    Macrocyclic OrganicCompounds – a Personal Review in Honor of Professor Leopold Ružička". Cyclic and Macrocyclic Organic Compounds, Kem. Ind. 58: 73–80. Vicente...
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  • Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Bosnia and Herzegovina), Chemistry, 1975 Leopold Ružička*, Resided in what is now Croatia, born in the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia...
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    Norman Haworth / Paul Karrer 1938: Richard Kuhn 1939: Adolf Butenandt / Leopold Ružička 1940 1941 1942 1943: George de Hevesy 1944: Otto Hahn 1945: Artturi...
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    their connection to vitamins 1939 (Chemistry) Adolf Butenandt and Leopold Ružička — Isolation and structural studies of steroid sex hormones, and related...
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    "musky". The chemical structure of muscone was first elucidated by Leopold Ružička. It is a 15-membered ring ketone with one methyl substituent in the...
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  • Chemical Engineering. He did his doctoral work under Nobel Prize winner Leopold Ružička and was a colleague of other notable chemists, including Tadeus Reichstein...
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    The Academy's membership has included Nobel laureates Ivo Andrić, Leopold Ružička, Vladimir Prelog, Glenn T. Seaborg, Mikhail Sholokhov, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn...
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    International Office for Refugees 1939 Ernest Lawrence Adolf Butenandt; Leopold Ružička Gerhard Domagk Frans Eemil Sillanpää None 1940 Cancelled due to World...
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  • semester) 1936 Peter Debye (professor) 1938 Richard Kuhn (professor) 1939 Leopold Ružička (professor) 1953 Hermann Staudinger (lecturer) 1975 Vladimir Prelog...
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    produced industrially.[circular reference] In 1917, H&R supported Leopold Ružička's unsuccessful three-year project to synthesize irone, a fragrance of...
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  • with Francis William Bergstrom on selenium compounds, a paper with Leopold Ružička on betulin derivatives, a paper with Thomas Midgley Jr. on polystyrene...
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    College of Applied Sciences "Lavoslav Ružička" in Vukovar (Croatian: Veleučilište "Lavoslav Ružička" u Vukovaru) is an education institution situated...
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  • Joseph Pauli (Sr.) and Sigmund Fränkel; after which he worked with Leopold Ružička at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. When war started...
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  • English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975) 1887 – Leopold Ružička, Croatian-Swiss biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976)...
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    litres of urine. This steroid was subsequently synthesized in 1934 by Leopold Ružička, a chemist in Zurich. In the 1930s, it was already known that the testes...
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  • Ernest Rutherford Chemistry 1908 Victoria University of Manchester Leopold Ružička Chemistry 1939 ETH Zurich Martin Ryle Physics 1974 University of Cambridge...
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    Synthesis of macrocyclic ketones Ruzicka large-ring synthesis Synthesis and elucidation of various terpenes Muscone Leopold Ružička Laminate flooring Glueless...
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  • Rutishauser (1918–1970), mathematician, computer software pioneer Leopold Ružička (1887–1976), 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Johann Jakob Scheuchzer...
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