1887–1976 Croatian-born Swiss organic chemist and Nobel prize winner who investigated male sex hormones.
Keywords: terpenes; sex hormones; isoprene rule
Ruzika, Leopold Stephen
WH Brock, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002908
| Further Reading | |
| Ruika L (1953) The isoprene rule and the biogenesis of terpenic compounds. Experentia 9: 357–367. | |
| book Ruika L (1959) "History of the isoprene rule". Proceedings of the Chemical Society 341–360. | |
| book Ruika L (1966) Nobel Lectures: Chemistry, 1922–1941, pp. 466–496. New York: Elsevier. | |
| Ruika L (1973) In the borderland between bioorganic chemistry and biochemistry. Annual Review of Biochemistry 42: 1–20. | |
| book Borell M (1990) "Leopold Stephen Ruika". In: Holmes CC (ed.) Dictionary of Scientific Biography, vol. 18, pp. 764–785. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. | |
| Kenner GW (1977) L. Ruika. Nature 266: 392–394. | |
| book Magill FN (ed.) (1990) The Nobel Prize Winners Chemistry, vol. 2, pp. 439–448. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press. | |
| Prelog V (1980) Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 26: 411–501. | |
| book Wasson T (1987) Nobel Prize Winners, pp. 901–902.New York: HW Wilson. | |
