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Leopold Ružička

1887 to 1976 7 documented presences 7 places

Quo Fuit places 7 dated presences for Leopold Ružička across 7 places, from 1910 to 1957. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

Leopold Ružička (born Lavoslav Stjepan Ružička; 13 September 1887 – 26 September 1976) 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." He worked moWikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Leopold Ružička was documented, and when

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Zürichattested “Studying within Staudinger's department, he obtained his doctoral degree in 1910, then moved to Zürich as Staudinger's assistant.” source: Wikipedia: Leopold Ružička
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Vukovarattested “Ružička was born in Vukovar (until 1918 in the Austria-Hungary, today in Croatia).” source: Wikipedia: Leopold Ružička
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Austria-Hungaryattested “Ružička was born in Vukovar (until 1918 in the Austria-Hungary, today in Croatia).” source: Wikipedia: Leopold Ružička
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Croatiaattested “Ružička was born in Vukovar (until 1918 in the Austria-Hungary, today in Croatia).” source: Wikipedia: Leopold Ružička
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Archduchy of Austriaattested “Ružička was born in Vukovar (until 1918 in the Austria-Hungary, today in Croatia).” source: Wikipedia: Leopold Ružička
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ETH Zurichattested “At ETH Zurich, the Ružička Award was established in 1957 on the occasion of his retirement, for young chemists working in Switzerland.” source: Wikipedia: Leopold Ružička
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Switzerlandattested “At ETH Zurich, the Ružička Award was established in 1957 on the occasion of his retirement, for young chemists working in Switzerland.” source: Wikipedia: Leopold Ružička

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Places Leopold Ružička is documented in

Austria-Hungary1 presence · 1918Croatia1 presence · 1918ETH Zurich1 presence · 1957Switzerland1 presence · 1957Zürich1 presence · 1910
Archduchy of Austria1 presence · 1918
Vukovar1 presence · 1918

Other places tied to Leopold Ružička in the record

In each of these, a source puts Leopold Ružička and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that Leopold Ružička was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason: a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.

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Utrecht Universitymentioned “In 1927, he took over the organic chemistry chair at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.” source: Wikipedia: Leopold Ružička
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Netherlandsmentioned “In 1927, he took over the organic chemistry chair at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.” source: Wikipedia: Leopold Ružička
1936year
Harvard Universitymentioned “He was awarded in 1936 an honorary degree from Harvard University.” source: Wikipedia: Leopold Ružička
1970year
Lindaumentioned “In 1970, Ružička delivered to the Nobel Laureate Conferences in Lindau a lecture entitled "Nobel Prizes and the chemistry of life".” source: Wikipedia: Leopold Ružička

Documented at the same place, the same year

Ivo AndrićUniversity of Zagreb · 1918Elisabeth Kübler-RossUniversity of Zurich · 1957Richard BurtonSwitzerland · 1957Montgomery CliftSwitzerland · 1957Einojuhani RautavaaraSwitzerland · 1957Arnold SchoenbergVienna · 1918Kurt WaldheimVienna · 1918Ludwig von BertalanffyVienna · 1918Emil ArtinVienna · 1918

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