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

Croatia Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herze ...

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