| LC control no. | no2011172873 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Rosenkranz, George, 1916-2019 |
| Variant(s) | Rosenkranz, Gyorgy, 1919-2019 |
| Associated country | United States Hungary Mexico |
| Birth date | 1916-08-20 |
| Death date | 2019-06-23 |
| Place of birth | Hungary |
| Place of death | Atherton (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Chemistry |
| Profession or occupation | Chemists |
| Found in | George and Edith Rosenkranz, c2011: page 5 (George Rosenkranz, born 1916 in Budapest) jacket (created a pharmaceutical company in Mexico; world-class bridge player) New York Times, June 23, 2019: Obituaries section (George Rosenkranz, chemist; died June 23, 2019 in Atherton, California; born Gyorgy Rosenkranz, Budapest, August 20, 1916; studied at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich; 1940, earned PhD; fled Nazi Europe for Quito, Ecuador but ended up in Cuba in December 1941; 1945, married Edith Stein; 1945, joined Syntex Laboratories in Mexico, where he worked on hormone synthesis; 1949, became naturalized Mexician; became chief executive of Syntex Corporation; 1981, retired) |
| Associated language | eng |
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