Adolf Butenandt

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Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt (March 24, 1903 – January 18 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. He finished his studies in Göttingen with a phd in chemistry, and after his Habilitation he became lecturer in Göttingen 1931. He was professor at the technical university in Danzig 1933, and after a visite in the US, he became director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin-Dahlem 1936. The institute was renamed and moved to Tübingen as the Max Planck Institute of biochemistry after the war. 1956 it was moved to Martinsried near Munich. Butenandt is credited with the discovery and naming of the silkworm moth pheromone Bombykol in 1959. He was also president of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft from 1960 till 1971.

External links

• http://nobelprize.org/chemistry/laureates/1939/butenandt-bio.html
• his work on sex hormones. (Caused by the authorities of his country to decline the award but later received the diploma and the medal).

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