Eligio Perucca, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Eligio Perucca

Italian chemist

Date of Birth: 28-Mar-1890

Place of Birth: Potenza, Basilicata, Italy

Date of Death: 05-Jan-1965

Profession: chemist

Nationality: Italy

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Eligio Perucca (28 March 1890 in Potenza – 5 January 1965 in Rome) was an Italian physics instructor and researcher at the University of Turin in Italy in the early decades of the twentieth century.
He later served a professorship at the nearby Polytechnic University of Turin.
He discovered an important principle in stereochemistry in 1919, but his contribution was overlooked and forgotten until recently.