Chemist no. 109 of 350 · Organic
Adolf Windaus
1876-1959GermanyNobel Chemistry 1928
Sterols and vitamin D
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Adolf Windaus: Sterols, Cholesterol and the Origin of Vitamin D
How Adolf Windaus unravelled the sterols, linked ergosterol to vitamin D and explained rickets prevention, winning the 1928 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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Adolf Windaus: Complete Life and Legacy
Life of Adolf Windaus (1876-1959), German chemist of sterols and vitamin D, successor to Wallach at Göttingen and Nobel laureate in Chemistry 1928.
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Documented doctoral, postdoctoral and teaching links. Dashed chips are teachers outside the 350 chemists listed here.
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- Heinrich Kilianidoctoral
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