Drago Grdenić (31 August 1919 – 7 September 2018) was a

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n chemist and academician and the founder of

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in Croatia. Over the course of his career he determined the structure of a number of mercury complexes and

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compounds. He introduced the effective coordination of mercury atom and set rules for structural chemistry of mercury.

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1919 births 2018 deaths Croatian chemists Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb alumni Members of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts People from Križevci Crystallographers Yugoslav scientists {{Croatia-scientist-stub