Leopold Ruzicka Death Cause and Date

Leopold Ruzicka's Death

Born (Birthday) September 13, 1887

Death Date September 26, 1976

Age of Death 89 years

Cause of Death N/A

Place of Death Mammern, Switzerland

Profession Chemist

The chemist Leopold Ruzicka died at the age of 89. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

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.

He worked as Hermann Staudinger’s assistant in Zurich.

Vladimir Prelog, who won the 1975 Nobel Prize for chemistry, worked under him during World War II.

He married his first wife Anna Hausmann in 1912.

Fellow Nobel laureate Fritz Haber was one of his professors at the High Technical School in Germany.