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Butenandt studied at the universities of Marburg and Gottingen, receiving his Ph.D. from the latter in 1927.
Butenandt was director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute (later the Max Planck Institute) for Biochemistry in Berlin beginning in 1936, and when the institute moved to Tubingen in 1945 he became a professor at the University of Tubingen.
In 1959, after two decades of research, Butenandt and his colleagues isolated the sex attractant of the silkworm moth, Bombyx mori, which proved to be the first known example of the important class of chemical substances known as pheromones.
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 Butenandt, Adolf Friedrich Johann --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
Friedrich Johann Blumenbach was born in Gotha, Germany, on May 11, 1752.
Along with Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Schelling was one of the chief successors of Immanuel Kant in German philosophy.
Biographical sketches of Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt of Germany and Leopold Ruzicka of Switzerland.
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Hermann Friedrich Stannius tied ligatures between the sinus venosus and the atrium, and between the atrium and the ventricles of a frog heart, and demonstrated that the sinus is the pacemaker of the heart, yet the atria and ventricles are capable of independent, spontaneous contractions.
Johann Friedrich Miescher isolated a substance which he called "nuclein" from the nuclei of white blood cells that was soluble in alkalis but not in acids.
Johannes Friedrich Karl Holtfreter demonstrated that dissociated cells from the same tissue would resynthesize that tissue if they were kept in contact with each other.
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 Adolf Butenandt - Biography
Adolf Frederick Johann Butenandt was born on March 24, 1903 at Bremerhaven-Wesermünde.
Butenandt's name will always be associated with his work on sex hormones, for which he was awarded, jointly with Leopold Ruzicka, the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for 1939.
Progesterone was isolated by Butenandt from the corpus luteum in 1934.
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 Adolf Butenandt --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Butenandt studied at the universities of Marburg and Göttingen, receiving his Ph.D. from the latter in 1927.
Swiss chemist and joint recipient, with Adolf Butenandt of Germany, of the 1939 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on ringed molecules, terpenes (a class of hydrocarbons found in the essential oils of many plants), and sex hormones.
The rise of Adolf Hitler to the position of dictator of Germany is the story of a frenzied ambition that plunged the world into the worst war in history.
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Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt was born exactly one century ago, on March 24, 1903, in northern Germany.
The American gynecologist John Charles Rock was born exactly 13 years before Butenandt, on March 24, 1890, in Massachusetts.
The work of Butenandt and Rock -- one in pure science, the other in applied science -- has had long-term social consequences.
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JOHANN DEISENHOFER, ROBERT HUBER and HARTMUT MICHEL for the determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre.
ADOLF OTTO REINHOLD WINDAUS for the services rendered through his research into the constitution of the sterols and their connection with the vitamins.
JOHANN FRIEDRICH WILHELM ADOLF VON BAEYER in recognition of his services in the advancement of organic chemistry and the chemical industry, through his work on organic dyes and hydroaromatic compounds.
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Formerly known as androsterone, Nobel Laureate Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt (1939 in Chemistry) first isolated testosterone as a chloroform extract from male urine.
He found that the crystalline substance, with the physiological properties of a male sex hormone, had some similarities with the female sex hormone estrogen.
Based on the molecular structure of cholesterol, Butenandt outlined the formula for testosterone in 1934.
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In 1928, Heinrich Otto Wieland and Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus determined the structure of the cholesterol molecule.
In 1929, Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt and, independently, Edward Adelbert Doisy isolated 'estrone,' a sex hormone, from urine.
In 1932, Hans Adolf Krebs and Kurt Henseleit discovered the 'urea cycle,' a circular pathway in liver cells in which excess ammonia, produced by the breakdown of amino acids, and carbon dioxide react together creating urea, which is filtered by the kidneys and excreted.
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 Adolf --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Adolf of Nassau (centre), ivory carving, 13th century; in the Germanic National Museum, …
also called Adolf, Count (Graf) Von Nassau German king from May 5, 1292, to June 23, 1298, when he was deposed in favour of his Habsburg opponent, Albert I.
Adolf, who was count of Nassau from 1277 and a mercenary soldier of repute, was chosen king at Frankfurt by the German electors, who preferred him to Albert as successor to Albert's father, Rudolf I, the first Habsburg king.
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Butenandt, Adolf Friedrich Johann (1903-1995), German chemist and Nobel laureate, born in Bremerhaven and educated at the Universities of Göttingen...
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In World War II he led a fighter squadron in the Battle of Britain, destroying 100 British planes, and became commander of the Luftwaffe's fighter arm.
Blamed by Adolf Hitler and Hermann Göring for the collapse of Germany's air defense against Anglo-American bombing raids, he was relieved of his command in 1945.
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ADOLF FRIEDRICH JOHANN BUTENANDT for his work on sex hormones.
RICHARD ADOLF ZSIGMONDY for his demonstration of the heterogenous nature of colloid solutions and for the methods he used, which have since become fundamental in modern colloid chemistry.
SIR WILLIAM RAMSAY in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air, and his determination of their place in the periodic system.
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 Adolf Eichmann --  Encyclopædia Britannica
in full Karl Adolf Eichmann German high official who was hanged by the state of Israel for his part in the Holocaust, the Nazi extermination of Jews during World War II.
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 Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt Winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt Winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Note: Forced by the Nazi government to decline the award but later received the diploma and the medal (in 1949).
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1927 Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus (Berlin, 1876 - 1959) analyzes bile acids and identifies ergosterol as the parent substance of vitamin D. 1927 Erik Anderson Stensiö (1891 - 1984) reconstructs a fossil Cephalapsid (an ostracoderm) and suggests that it is a vertebrate prototype.
1928 Wieland and Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus (Berlin, 1876 - 1959) elucidate the structure of the cholesterol molecule.
1933 Hans Adolf Krebs (Hildesheim, Germany, 1900 - 1981) and Kurt Henseleit (1907 - 1973) establish the first elements of what is now known as the "urea cycle" where synthesis and degradation of the guanidinium, nitrogen-rich group of arginine is explained.
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 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer (Germany, 31.10.1835 - 20.8.1917)
Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus (Germany, 25.12.1876 - 9.6.1959)
Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt (Germany, 24.3.1903 - 18.1.1995)
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Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer (organic dyes and hydroaromatic compounds)
Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt (sex hormones) and Leopold Ruzicka (polymethylenes and higher turpenes)
Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber, and Hartmut Michel (3D structure of a photosynthetic reaction center)
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Adolf Frederick Johann Butenandt was born on March 24,1903 at Bremerhaven-Wesermünde.
In 1929 he isolated oestrone in pure, crystalline form, almost at the same time that E.A.Doisy did this in America.
He married Erika Ziegner in 1931; they have seven children and live at Munich-Obermenzing.
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 Winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1905 Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer Synthetic organic chemistry, particularily for the synthesis of indigo and triphenylmethane dyes.
1939 Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt Study of sex hormones.
1988 Hartmut Michel and Johann Deisenhofer and Robert Huber Structure of a membrane protein from the purple photosynthetic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas viridis.
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