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Milan Rodoje Vukcevich was born in Belgrade. He became a master at the age of sixteen. In 1955, Vukcevich drew a six-game match with future Candidates semifinalist Bent Larsen, the same year he won the Yugoslav Junior Championship. At the Leningrad Student Olympiad of 1960 he scored 11.5/13 as the third-board player for the Yugoslavian team.

In 1963, Vukcevich moved to the United States to enroll in university and study metallurgy. Four years later he took his doctorate and turned his attention once more to chess. He tied for first place at the U.S. Open of 1969 with Robert Eugene Byrne and Pal Benko, and he also ended up playing in the 1975 U.S. chess championship---his only appearance in the event. It was probably no coincidence that the tournament that year was held in Oberlin, Ohio--not far from where he was living, in Cleveland. 

Vukcevich's successes were not limited to over-the-board play. In 1988 he became the first American in history to earn the title of FIDE Grandmaster of Chess Composition. A very prolific scientist, he is the only chess grandmaster ever to be considered for a Nobel Prize (chemistry), and remained a well-known university professor until his death in 2003.