About
A Croatian chemist who won the 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on polymethylenes. After his laboratory successfully synthesized sex hormones it became the world center of organic chemistry.
Before Fame
He worked as Hermann Staudinger's assistant in Zurich.
Trivia
Vladimir Prelog, who won the 1975 Nobel Prize for chemistry, worked under him during World War II.
Family Life
He married his first wife Anna Hausmann in 1912.
Associated With
Fellow Nobel laureate Fritz Haber was one of his professors at the High Technical School in Germany.
