Butenandt

American  

[boot-n-ahnt] / ˈbut nˌɑnt /

noun

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

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Butenandt British  

/ 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

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Example Sentences

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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Butenandt isolated the male sex hormone, androsterone, and Ruzicka first synthesized it from the fat of sheep's wool.

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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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Until recently the two known male hormones were androsterone, first obtained by Butenandt of Germany, and a much more powerful one called testosterone, isolated by Laqueur of The Netherlands.

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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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