Which famous people have you outlived?

Adolf Butenandt

German biochemist

Died when: 91 years 300 days (1101 months)
Star Sign: Aries

 

Adolf Butenandt

Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt (German pronunciation: [ˈaːdɔlf ˈbuːtənant]; 24 March 1903 – 18 January 1995) was a German biochemist.

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1939 for his "work on sex hormones." He initially rejected the award in accordance with government policy, but accepted it in 1949 after World War II.

He was President of the Max Planck Society from 1960 to 1972.He was also the first, in 1959, to discover the structure of the sex pheromone of silkworms which he named as bombykol.


Related People

Johanna Budwig
German biochemist
Otto Fritz Meyerhof
German biochemist
Ernst Leopold Salkowski
German biochemist
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License