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    Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt (German pronunciation: [ˈaːdɔlf ˈbuːtənant] ; 24 March 1903 – 18 January 1995) was a German biochemist. He was awarded...
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    sterols and their relation to vitamins. He was the doctoral advisor of Adolf Butenandt who also won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1939. He was born in Berlin...
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    German journalist Adolf Brudes (1899–1986), German racing driver Adolf Busch (1891–1952), German violinist and composer Adolf Butenandt (1903–1995), German...
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    food sources. In 1959, the German biochemist and Nobel Prize winner Adolf Butenandt identified and synthesized the unsaturated fatty alcohol bombycol,...
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    governments to accept the Nobel Prize. Adolf Hitler forbade four Germans, Richard Kuhn (Chemistry, 1938), Adolf Butenandt (Chemistry, 1939), Gerhard Domagk...
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    Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry, Germans Richard Kuhn (1938) and Adolf Butenandt (1939), were not allowed by their government to accept the prize. They...
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    various scientists, including Jean-Henri Fabre, Joseph A. Lintner, Adolf Butenandt, and ethologist Karl von Frisch who called them various names, like...
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    the KWG 1946 and then as Founder and President of the MPG 1948–1960) Adolf Butenandt (1960–1972) Reimar Lüst (1972–1984) Heinz Staab (1984–1990) Hans F...
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    Edgar Allen and the German biochemist Adolf Butenandt, although Doisy and Allen isolated it two months before Butenandt. They isolated and purified estrone...
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    replaced with a C4 double bond. Pregnenolone was first synthesized by Adolf Butenandt and colleagues in 1934. Henderson E, Weinberg M, Wright WA (April 1950)...
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