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Adolf Butenandt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (214 words) |
 | Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt (March 24, 1903 in Lehe, – January 18, 1995 in Munich) was a German biochemist. |
| He was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1939 for his work on sex hormones. |
| Butenandt is credited with the discovery and naming of the silkworm moth pheromone Bombykol in 1959. |
| Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1939 - Presentation Speech (826 words) |
| Butenandt made the first big step forward in clarifying the chemistry of the follicle hormone in 1929 in Göttingen, simultaneously with Doisy in the United States. |
| In 1932, Butenandt was able, from observations made in spectral analysis, and especially on the basis of the then established correct formula of cholesterol to draw up the formulae of the chemical structure of oestrone and oestriol. |
| Butenandt was the first to tackle this problem, and it was only possible to work on it after biological research had found a quantitative test for the determination of these substances - the so-called capon comb test. |
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