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Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt was a German biochemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1939 for his "work on sex hormones." He initially rejected the award in accordance with government policy, but accepted it in 1949 after World War II. He was President of the Max Planck Society from 1960 to 1972. He was also the first, in 1959, to discover the structure of the sex pheromone of…

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politics · German biochemist (1903–1995) · biochemist · chemist · politician · university teacher · also Adolf Butenandt, Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt, Butenandt

Born 24 March 1903 · Died 18 January 1995 · Q5327

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Jun 1994Award
Won Great Golden Medal of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria (1994).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Gdańsk University of Technology (1994).
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2004· 1 entry

Aug 17, 2004Documented record69% confidence

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Neue Zürcher Zeitung: Die pragmatische Karriere Adolf Butenandts

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1995· 1 entry

Jan 18, 1995Documented record86% confidence

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Died 1995-01-18.

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1994· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1994Documented record84% confidence

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Won Great Golden Medal of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria (1994).

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Jun 15, 1994Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded honorary doctor of the Gdańsk University of Technology (1994).

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1985· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1985Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded honorary citizen of Munich (1985).

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Jun 15, 1985Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Grand Cross 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1985).

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1981· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1981Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1981).

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1973· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1973Documented record84% confidence

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Won Harnack medal (1973).

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1972· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1972Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded honorary doctor of Paris Descartes University (1972).

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1970· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1970Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Ernst Hellmut Vits Award (1970).

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1968· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1968Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1968).

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1964· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1964Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Great Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1964).

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Jun 15, 1964Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (1964).

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1963· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1963Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Vienna (1963).

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Jun 15, 1963Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense (1963).

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1962· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1962Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order (1962).

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1959· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1959Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1959).

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1959Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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To discover the structure of the sex pheromone of silkworms, which he named bombykol

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1957· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1957Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of Graz (1957).

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1956· 1 entry

1956Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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When the institute relocated to Martinsried, a suburb of Munich, Butenandt became a professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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1948· 1 entry

1948Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Was considered for the chair for physiological medicine at the University of Basel

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1945· 1 entry

1945Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Became a professor at the University of Tübingen

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1943· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1943Documented record84% confidence

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Won Carus medal (1943).

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1942· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1942Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded War Merit Cross (1942).

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Jun 15, 1942Documented record84% confidence

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Won August Wilhelm von Hofmann Medal (1942).

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1940· 1 entry

1940Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Was involved in research on a hormone treatment to make long submarine voyages more comfortable for submariners in the Kriegsmarine

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1939· 2 entries

Dec 10, 1939Documented record85% confidence

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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for his work on sex hormones.

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Jun 15, 1939Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1939).

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1936· 1 entry

1936Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Applied for the directorship of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institut (later the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry) in Berlin-Dahlem while also joining the NSDAP on 1 May 1936 (party member No

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1935· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1935Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Fresenius Prize (1935).

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Jun 15, 1935Documented record84% confidence

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Won Emil Fischer Medal (1935).

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1934· 1 entry

1934Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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And testosterone a year later, the research results were along with the synthesis of steroids by Leopold Ružička considered significant enough to be awarded later by Nobel Committee in 1939

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1933· 1 entry

1933Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Butenandt signed the Vow of allegiance of the Professors of the German Universities and High-Schools to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialistic State

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1903· 1 entry

Mar 24, 1903Documented record86% confidence

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Born 1903-03-24.

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