BUTENANDT, Adolf Friedrich Johann (1903 – 1995)
1903 – 1995
3 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1931 CE
#1195
Ueber die chemische Untersuchung der Sexualhormone.
The male sex hormone, androsterone, was isolated in crystalline form by Butenandt. In 1939 Butenandt received half of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on sex hormones." The other half was awarded to Leopold …
1934 CE
#1200
Neuere Ergebnisse auf dem Gebiet der Sexualhormone.
Progesterone obtained in crystalline form.
1959 CE
#14056
Pheromones (ectohormones) in insects.
Karlson and Butenandt (Nobel Prize 1939) defined pheromones as “substances which are secreted to the outside by an individual of the same species, in which they release a specific reaction, for example, a defini…