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Butenandt

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Butenandt
Adolf Frederick Johann. 1903--95, German organic chemist. He shared the Nobel prize for chemistry (1939) for his pioneering work on sex hormones


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Chemical structures, properties and beneficial effects of some compounds isolated from Tephrosia vogelii The chemical structures of rotenone and its derivatives (collectively called rotenoids) were independently determined by Butenandt and McCartney (1932), Laforge and Haller (1932), and Takei et al (1932).
Pheromones were discovered in nineteen fifty-nine by Peter Karlson and Adolf Butenandt.
1) It was not until the 1930s that Butenandt isolated the first androgen of androsterone.
 
 
 
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