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Adolf Butenandt

1903 - 1995

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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 the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1939 for his "work on sex hormones." He initially rejected the award in accordance with government policy, but accepted it in 1949 after World War II. He was President of the Max Planck Society from 1960 to 1972. He was also the first, in 1959, to discover the structure of the sex pheromone of silkworms, which he named bombykol. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adolf Butenandt is the 50th most popular chemist (down from 43rd in 2019), the 230th most popular biography from Germany (up from 336th in 2019) and the 12th most popular German Chemist.

Adolf Butenandt was a German biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1939 for his work on sex hormones. He was the first to isolate estrone and testosterone from animal tissues.

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Among chemists, Adolf Butenandt ranks 50 out of 602. Before him are Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Adolf von Baeyer, Fritz Pregl, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Victor Grignard, and Arthur Harden. After him are Archer Martin, Otto Diels, Henry Louis Le Chatelier, Walther Nernst, Rodney Robert Porter, and Robert Bunsen.

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Among people born in 1903, Adolf Butenandt ranks 11. Before him are Aram Khachaturian, Georges Simenon, Theodor W. Adorno, George Beadle, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, and C. F. Powell. After him are Habib Bourguiba, Fernandel, Mark Rothko, Jan Tinbergen, Andrey Kolmogorov, and Galeazzo Ciano. Among people deceased in 1995, Adolf Butenandt ranks 8. Before him are Siad Barre, Bob Ross, Emil Cioran, Gilles Deleuze, Juan Manuel Fangio, and Emmanuel Levinas. After him are Eugene Wigner, Hannes Alfvén, Mikhail Botvinnik, Maurizio Gucci, Michael Ende, and Milovan Đilas.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adolf Butenandt ranks 230 out of 7,253. Before him are Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk (1887), Georg Simmel (1858), Maurice, Prince of Orange (1567), Otto von Guericke (1602), Wilhelm Dilthey (1833), and Karl Liebknecht (1871). After him are Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928), Emmy Noether (1882), Lothair II, Holy Roman Emperor (1075), Edith Stein (1891), Arnulf of Carinthia (850), and Hans Memling (1435).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Adolf Butenandt ranks 12. Before him are Friedrich Wöhler (1800), Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742), Hans Adolf Krebs (1900), Otto Hahn (1879), Richard Willstätter (1872), and Adolf von Baeyer (1835). After him are Otto Diels (1876), Robert Bunsen (1811), Justus von Liebig (1803), Karl Ziegler (1898), Hermann Staudinger (1881), and Hans von Euler-Chelpin (1873).

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