Butenandt

American

[boot-n-ahnt] / ˈbut nˌɑnt /

noun

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

Butenandt British

/ ˈbutənant /

noun

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

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Last week Dr. Butenandt announced ahead of anyone else that he had crystallized the analagous masculine hormone.

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Dr. Adolf Butenandt of Gottingen crystallized the female sex hormone theelin a few months after Dr. Edward Adelbert Doisy of St. Louis had done so, thereby losing the scientific glory of priority.

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

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Out of an ocean of human male urine, German Chemist Adolf Butenandt extracted a few tiny crystals that showed hormone activity.

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The 1939 award in Chemistry was divided between Professor Adolf Butenandt, also of Berlin, and Professor Leopold Ruzicka of Zurich.

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