Julije Domac, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Croatian pharmacist
Date of Birth: 01-Jun-1853
Place of Birth: Vinkovci, Vukovar-Syrmia County, Croatia
Date of Death: 06-Mar-1928
Profession: pharmacist, chemist
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Julije Domac
- Julije Domac (1853, Vinkovci – 1928, Zagreb) was a Croatian pharmacist and chemist. In 1874 Domac graduated from the University of Vienna with a degree in pharmacy.
- In Vienna, some of his professors were Adolf Lieben and August Emil Vogl.
- On the behalf of professor Lieben he went to work in the laboratory of Leopold von Pebal where he dealt with analysis of gases.
- In 1880 in Graz he received a doctorate degree in the field of organic chemistry.
- For his doctorate degree he elucidated the structure of hexene and mannitol obtained from manna.
- He determined the place of the double bond in hexene obtained from mannitol and proved that it is a derivative of a normal hexene.
- This also solved the structure of mannitol which had been unknown until then.Although he was offered a position of assistant professor at the University of Vienna due to various circumstances Domac was forced to return to Vinkovci.
- After working several years as a secondary school chemistry teacher at several gymnasiums he became an associate professor and then a full professor of pharmacognosy at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, as well as a rector of University of Zagreb.
- In 1896 he established the Department of Pharmacognosy, one of the rare independent institutions of its type in the world at the time.
- He co-wrote Croato-Slavonian Pharmacopoeia, an extremely well received work among European pharmaceutical experts which introduced a number of innovations.
- In Croatia, an annual award (medal) for outstanding service in the field of pharmaceuticals bears his name.
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