Leopold Ružička
Croatian-Swiss scientist
Leopold Ružička ForMemRS was a Croatian-Swiss scientist and joint winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on polymethylenes and higher terpenes" "including the first chemical synthesis of male sex hormones." Wikipedia
Born: September 13, 1887, Vukovar, Croatia
Died: September 26, 1976 (age 89 years), Mammern, Switzerland
Education: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (1910), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (1906–1908), III Gymnasium Osijek (1898–1906), and more
Parents: Amalija Sever and Stjepan Ružička
Nationality: Croatian and Swiss
Awards: Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Marcel Benoist Prize
Known for: Research on Terpenes