Private Life
Prelog had a son Jan born in 1949 with Kamila Vitak whom he married in 1933. He considered himself a Swiss patriot and world citizen.
As a private person, he was the source of anecdotes about almost all eminent chemists all over the world. An intellectual with a wide cultural background, he never insisted on authority and was unaccustomed to confrontation. As an introspective person, ironic and suspicious of high social, political or religious aspirations, Prelog rarely allowed people insight into his inner life. He was one of the 109 Nobel Prize winners who signed the peace appeal for Croatia in 1991.
Vladimir Prelog died in Zürich, at the age of 91. An urn containing Prelog's ashes was ceremoniously interred at the Mirogoj cemetery in Zagreb on September 27, 2001. In 2008, a memorial to Prelog was unveiled in Prague.
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