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Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus
1876 – 1959
About this person
Wikipedia SummaryAdolf Otto Reinhold Windaus was a German chemist who won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1928 for his work on sterols and their relation to vitamins. He was the doctoral advisor of Adolf Butenandt who also won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1939.
Biographical & Professional Details
Date of birth
December 25, 1876
Berlin
Date of death
June 9, 1959
Göttingen
Citizenship
Germany
Occupations & fields
chemistuniversity teacher
Awards & honours
Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of GermanyPour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts orderNobel Prize in ChemistryAdolf-von-Baeyer Gold MedalGoethe Medal for Art and Sciencehonorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
- Field and occupation
- nemecký chemik
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