Butenandt
Americannoun
noun
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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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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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The 1939 award in Chemistry was divided between Professor Adolf Butenandt, also of Berlin, and Professor Leopold Ruzicka of Zurich.
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Butenandt isolated the male sex hormone, androsterone, and Ruzicka first synthesized it from the fat of sheep's wool.
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