Butenandt, Adolf

Butenandt, Adolf, Beckmann, Rudiger, Hecker, Erich, Z. physiol. Chem. 324,71-83 (1961). 

Butenandt, Adolf. (1903-1995). A German biochemist who won a Nobel Prize with Ruzicka in 1939. His work involved insecticides for plants and hormones. He received his doctorate at the University of Marburg, Germany. He received a multitide of honorary degrees and awards. 

Butenandt, Adolf Friedrich Johann (1903-95) German biochemist who isolated the male sex hormone androsterone and, in 1931, a few milligrams of progesterone from the corpus luteum of the ovaries of female pigs. His methods must have been relatively inefficient, as no fewer than 50,000 pigs were required. For his work on hormones he shared the 1939 Nobel Prize in chemistry with Leopold Ruzicka. 

Adolf Butenandt-Institute LMU Miinchen Butenandtstr. 5 81377 Miinchen Germany... 

This signal chemical accomplishment is the work of a German chemist Adolf Butenandt and his coworkers and was completed in the late 1950s. Butenandt later won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his achievements, including the identification of the silkworm moth sex pheromone. This was not easy work it required about 20 years of effort. Nearly half a million female silkworm moths had to be processed to yield a mere 6 milligrams (mg), about three ten-thousandths of an ounce, of the sex pheromone. The structure of the substance was deduced from work on this very small amount of material. Given today s powerful tools of chemistry, the work would prove far less troublesome than it did in the time of Butenandt s work. 

Histone Modifications Group Adolf-Butenandt Institute Schillerstr 44 80336 Munich Germany... 

Adolf F. J. Butenandt and L. Ruzicka Chemistry Isolation and study of sex honnones, study of polymethylenes, terpenes... 

RUZICKA, LEOPOLD (1887-1976). A chemist who won the Nobel prize in 1939 with Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt. His work involved research in organic synthesis including polymethylenes and higher terpenes. He was the first chemist to synthesize musk, androsterone. and testosterone from cholesterol. His medical degree was awarded at the University of Basel, Switzerland, although he was born in Croatia and educated partially in Germany. 

At that time I was the youngest director in the whole Max-Planck organization. Adolf Butenandt was President of the Max Planck Gesellschaft and I told him so, and I remember what he told me, It will pass. ... 

At some point Adolf Butenandt was the President of the Max Planck Society. Did you mention in our previous conversation that he prevented such an investigation ... 

Adolf Butenandt For his work on sex hormones. 1949 nature of the serum proteins. William F. Giauque... 

Neurobiochemistry, Adolf-Butenandt-Institute, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany K.F. Winklhofer, and J. Tatzelt (E3)... 

Ludwig Maximilians University Munich Adolf Butenandt Institute ... 

Testosterone is a male sex hormone, one of a class of compounds known as androgens. Included in this group are testosterone, dihydrotestosterone, and androstenedione. Androgens are synthesized from cholesterol and are considered steroid hormones, a category of hormones that includes female sex hormones such as estrogen. The isolation and synthesis of testosterone were reported in 1935. Chemists Adolf Butenandt and Leopold Ruzicka later received the Nobel Prize in chemistry (in 1939) for this work and related discoveries. 

Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt (1903-1995) was born in Germany. He shared the 1939 Nobel Prize in chemistry (withRuzicka seep. 14 for isolating and determining me structures of estrone, androsterone, and progesterone. Forced by the Nazi government to refuse the prize, he accepted it after World War II. He was the director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin and later was a professor at the Universities of Tubingen and Munich. 

In the 1930s, however, interest in the compound was revived. In 1935, scientists obtained the first pure sample from testosterone and were able to confirm Brown-Sequard s findings. Within a matter of years, the compound became especially popular among middle-aged men who believed that it could restore their physical and mental abilities. Testosterone was first synthesized in 1935 by German chemist Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt (1903-1995), an accomplishment for which he was awarded the 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. 

German chemist Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt synthesizes testosterone. 

Kary B. Muiiis, Michaei Smith 1939 Adolf Butenandt, Leopold Ruzicka... 

Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt (1903-95), Germany. For his work on sex hormones. Leopold Ruzicka (1887-1976), Switzerland. For his work on polymethylenes and higher terpenes. ... 

Our study of the literature had shown that the nonsaponifiable moiety of fats could form compounds with cyanic acid—the so-called allophanates. They had been known from the days of Liebig and Wohler (1830), and in some of his studies of vitamin D had been employed by Windaus at Goettingen, whither went our Dr. and Mrs. Emerson in the fall of 1932, to gain the warm friendship of this chief and his brilliant young colleague Adolf Butenandt. 

The beginnings of steroid chemistry go back to Adolf Windaus (1876-1959), who laid the foundations of this captivating field in 1905. Important contributions came from Adolf Butenandt (1903-1995) and Heinrich Otto Wieland (1877-1957). [15] Oestrone was the first sex hormone to he isolated from the urine ofpregnant women in 1929 hy Butenandt in Gottingen. [16] Later,heused... 

WhUe the importance of semiochemicals has been known for a very long time, intensive research activity in this area only started in 1959 with the work of Adolf Butenandt (Fig. 8.58) on bombykol, the sex attractant of the female silkworm moth Bombyx mori). [165] It required the collection of some 500,000 female moths, to obtain enough material for the structrue elucidation of the messenger compound, which in the end proved to be a mixture of (10 ,12Z)-hexadecadienol and (10 ,12Z)-hexadecadienal (Fig. 8.59). 

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