Butenandt

[boot-n-ahnt]

noun

1. Adolf Friedrich Johann 1903–1995, German chemist: declined 1939 Nobel Prize on the demand of the Nazi government.

Butenandt

/ ˈbutənant /

noun

1. Adolf Frederick Johann . 1903–95, German organic chemist. He shared the Nobel prize for chemistry (1939) for his pioneering work on sex hormones

Example Sentences

Since 1959, when German biochemist Adolf Butenandt isolated the first pheromone—a compound named bombykol that female silkmoths use to attract partners—generations of researchers have looked for similarly powerful chemicals in humans.

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The war eventually started, of course, and Hitler forced three German scientists to decline their prizes during World War II. Richard Kuhn, Adolf Butenandt, and Gerhard Domagk did all ultimately receive their medals and diplomas, but not the cash, which can only be claimed for a year.

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Butenandt's discovery opens the way to a new attack on such pests.

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Last December Professor A. Butenandt of the University of G�ttingen similarly reported his crystallization of the female sex hormone.

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Professor Butenandt claims that he was first, that he was merely beaten to publicity.

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