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Butenandt

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Bu·te·nandt  (btn-änt), Adolf Friedrich 1903-1995.
German chemist. He shared a 1939 Nobel Prize for his work on sexual hormones but declined the honor following a Nazi edict prohibiting acceptance.
Butenandt (German) [ˈbutənant]
n
(Biographies / Butenandt, Adolf Frederick Johann (1903-1995) M, German, SCIENCE: chemist) 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).
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