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Adolf Windaus
Born
Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus
25 December 1876
Berlin, German Empire
Died
9 June 1959(1959-06-09) (aged 82)
Göttingen, West Germany
Nationality
German
Known for
Synthesis of vitamin D
Awards
Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts (1952) Goethe Medal (1941) Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1928)
Scientific career
Fields
Organic chemistry biochemistry
Doctoral advisor
Heinrich Kiliani[citation needed]
Doctoral students
Adolf Butenandt Erhard Fernholz
Adolf Windaus' grave in Göttingen
Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus (German pronunciation:[ˈaːdɔlfˈvɪndaʊs]ⓘ; 25 December 1876 – 9 June 1959) 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.
Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus (German pronunciation: [ˈaːdɔlf ˈvɪndaʊs] ; 25 December 1876 – 9 June 1959) was a German chemist who won a Nobel Prize in...
Marburg. For his PhD he joined the working group of the Nobel laureate AdolfWindaus at the University of Göttingen and he finished his studies with a PhD...
novelist AdolfWindaus (1876–1959), German chemist Adolf Wölfli (1864–1930), Swiss artist Adolf Zeising (1810–1876), German psychologist Adolf Ziegler...
known as D3). Alfred Fabian Hess stated: "Light equals vitamin D." AdolfWindaus, at the University of Göttingen in Germany, received the Nobel Prize...
amine component. The Nobel Prize for Chemistry for 1928 was awarded to AdolfWindaus "for his studies on the constitution of the sterols and their connection...
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governments to accept the Nobel Prize. Adolf Hitler forbade four Germans, Richard Kuhn (Chemistry, 1938), Adolf Butenandt (Chemistry, 1939), Gerhard Domagk...
December 21 – Jack Lang, Australian politician (d. 1975) December 25 AdolfWindaus, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959) Muhammad Ali Jinnah...
explain theoretically steps in textile printing processes developed by Adolf Holz. Discussions with Carl Engler prompted Haber to explain autoxidation...
called vitamin D. The 1928 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to AdolfWindaus, who discovered the steroid 7-dehydrocholesterol, the precursor of vitamin...
cooperation in the Asia - Pacific region. In 2009, she received the AdolfWindaus Medal. Princess Chulabhorn has been an honorary member of the Society...
1928 Won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Chemistry one year later (id=10166) AdolfWindaus December 25, 1876 Berlin, German Empire June 9, 1959 Göttingen, Germany...
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(born 1879), English physicist (Nobel Prize in Physics 1928). June 9 – AdolfWindaus (born 1876) German chemist (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1928). June 11...
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1900) June 8 – Pietro Canonica, Italian sculptor (b. 1869) June 9 – AdolfWindaus, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876) June 13 – Seán Lester...
org. April 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020. "Nomination Archive – AdolfWindaus". NobelPrize.org. April 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020. "Nomination...
Sciences. The following year he continued research with his thesis advisor AdolfWindaus and was named university assistant in the Chemistry faculty at Göttingen...
behaved in the same way, and he worked with Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus and published a paper with Windaus in 1927 entitled Development of marked activity...
for various contributions to the discovery of vitamins, including to AdolfWindaus for vitamin D. Like his predecessors at Wisconsin, McCollum was always...
demonstrated that sterol molecules were flat, not as previously proposed by AdolfWindaus. In 1932 Otto Rosenheim and Harold King published a paper putting forward...
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