Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus:
Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus was a German chemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
December 25, 1876 in Berlin, Germany
Death:
June 9, 1959 in Göttingen, Germany
Claim to Fame:
Windaus was a German chemist who was awarded the 1928 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research into cholesterol and other sterols and their relation to vitamins. He discovered a chemical precursor that, when exposed to sunlight, creates vitamin D. This shows how sunlight can prevent rickets, a vitamin D deficiency.
