Adolf Butenandt's groundbreaking research into sex hormones led to the formulation of the compounds estrone and androsterone , hormones involved in the regulation of sexual processes in the body. He has worked on both male and female sex hormones using...

Friedrich Butenandt devoted most of his career to isolating and synthesizing male and female hormones. He received the 1939 Nobel Prize in chemistry for demonstrating that the sex hormones were steroids and that the hormones are related to cholesterol...

1903-1995 German chemist whose isolation of sex hormones earned him a share of the 1939 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Butenandt received his Ph.D. from the University of Göttingen in 1927, and spent several years teaching at Göttingen and at the...

Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt (March 24, 1903 – January 18, 1995) was a German biochemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1939 for his "work on sex hormones." He was initially forced by the Nazi government to decline the award,...

Adolf Butenandt was one of the leading biochemists of the first half of this century. In 1939 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his primary achievements - the isolation in the years 1929 to 1934 of the sex hormones oestrone, androst...

Adolf Butenandt, 91, whose pioneering work on hormones earned him a share in the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1939 and helped lead to the development of the birth control pill, died Jan. 18 in Munich after a long illness. Dr. Butenandt's death...