Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt
1903-1995
German chemist whose isolation of sex hormones earned him a share of the 1939 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Butenandt received his Ph.D. from the University of ...
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Adolf Butenandt's groundbreaking research into sex hormones led to the formulation of the compounds estrone and androsterone , hormones involved in the regulation of sexual processes in the body. He h...
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Friedrich Butenandt devoted most of his career to isolating and synthesizing male and female hormones. He received the 1939 Nobel Prize in chemistry for demonstrating that the sex hormones were steroi...
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Friedrich Butenandt devoted most of his career to isolating and synthesizing male and female hormones. He received the 1939 Nobel Prize in chemistry for demonstrating that the sex hormones were steroi...
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