Chemist no. 117 of 350 · Biochemistry

Adolf Butenandt

1903-1995GermanyNobel Chemistry 1939

Isolation of sex hormones

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The discovery, explained

Adolf Butenandt: From Sex Hormones to the First Pheromone

How Adolf Butenandt isolated estrone, progesterone and androsterone, made testosterone and found the first pheromone, bombykol. Notes for JAM, NET, GATE.

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Biography

Adolf Butenandt: The Chemist of Hormones and Pheromones

Life of Adolf Butenandt, German biochemist who isolated sex hormones and the first pheromone, won the 1939 Chemistry Nobel and led the Max Planck Society.

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Academic lineage

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Teachers: Adolf Windausdoctoral
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