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Adolf Windaus

1876 - 1959

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Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus (German pronunciation: [ˈaːdɔlf ˈvɪndaʊs] ; 25 December 1876 – 9 June 1959) was a German chemist who won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1928 for his work on sterols and their relation to vitamins. He was the doctoral advisor of Adolf Butenandt who also won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1939. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adolf Windaus is the 20th most popular chemist (up from 54th in 2019), the 141st most popular biography from Germany (up from 387th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular German Chemist.

Adolf Windaus was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1928 for his work on the structure of chlorophyll.

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Among chemists, Adolf Windaus ranks 20 out of 602. Before her are John Stith Pemberton, Edwin McMillan, Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Raymond Davis Jr., August Kekulé, and William Ramsay. After her are Ernst Chain, Eduard Buchner, John Macleod, George Washington Carver, Fritz Haber, and John Fenn.

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Among people born in 1876, Adolf Windaus ranks 6. Before her are Pope Pius XII, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Mata Hari, Konrad Adenauer, and Jack London. After her are John Macleod, Róbert Bárány, Erich Raeder, Zewditu, Otto Diels, and Wilhelm Pieck. Among people deceased in 1959, Adolf Windaus ranks 5. Before her are George Marshall, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Owen Willans Richardson, and Stepan Bandera. After her are Frank Lloyd Wright, Cecil B. DeMille, Ante Pavelić, Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, Gérard Philipe, Bohuslav Martinů, and Billie Holiday.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adolf Windaus ranks 141 out of 7,253. Before her are Novalis (1772), Heinrich Böll (1917), Max Müller (1823), Erik Erikson (1902), Henry the Fowler (876), and Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor (980). After her are Leopold I of Belgium (1790), Ernst Chain (1906), Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472), Walter Benjamin (1892), Augustus II the Strong (1670), and Eduard Buchner (1860).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Adolf Windaus ranks 3. Before her are Emil Fischer (1852), and August Kekulé (1829). After her are Ernst Chain (1906), Eduard Buchner (1860), Friedrich Wöhler (1800), Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742), Hans Adolf Krebs (1900), Otto Hahn (1879), Richard Willstätter (1872), Adolf von Baeyer (1835), and Adolf Butenandt (1903).

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