Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt:
Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt was a German biochemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
March 24, 1903 in Bremerhaven-Lehe, Germany
Death:
January 18, 1995 in Munich, Germany
Claim to Fame:
Butenandt was a German biochemist who was awarded half the 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research of sex hormones. He discovered the hormone estrone from the secretions from ovaries responsible for the sexual development of females. He was also the first to isolate the male hormone androsterone. The Nazi government forced Butenandt to refuse his Nobel Prize, but he would eventually receive his award after the end of the War.
