Adolf Windaus
German chemist (1876–1959)
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German chemist who cracked the sterol-vitamin connection and picked up a Nobel Prize in 1928. Also mentored Adolf Butenandt, who snagged his own Nobel a decade later.
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Adolf 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.
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