Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt (24 March 1903 – 18 January 1995) was a German biochemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1939 for his "work on sex hormones.
1903–95), German chemist and Nobel laureate, born in Bremerhaven and educated at the universities of Göttingen and Marburg. He isolated and studied the sex hormones estrone ...
German biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1939 for his work on sex hormones. He isolated the first sex hormones (oestrone, androsterone, and progesterone ...