AKA Leopold Stephen Ruzicka

Born: 13-Sep-1887
Birthplace: Vukovar, Croatia
Died: 26-Sep-1976
Location of death: Zürich, Switzerland
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Chemist

Nationality: Switzerland
Executive summary: Studied terpenes

Father: Stjepan Ruzicka (cooper)
Mother: Ljubica Sever
Wife: Anna Hausmann (m. 1912)
Wife: Gertrud Acklin (m. 1951)

    University: Technische Hochschule, Karlsrohe
    Scholar: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich (1912-)
    Professor: Organic Chemistry, University of Utrecht (1926-29)

    Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1939 (with Adolf Butenandt)
    Naturalized Swiss Citizen 1917

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