The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1928
Awarded on: 1928-11-13
"for the services rendered through his research into the constitution of the sterols and their connection with the vitamins"
Affiliations:
- Goettingen University – Göttingen, Germany
Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus
Born: 1876-12-25 in Berlin, Germany
Gender: male
Field: German chemist (1876–1959)
Biography
Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus was a German chemist who won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1928 for his work on sterols and their relation to vitamins. He was the doctoral advisor of Adolf Butenandt who also won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1939.