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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1939

"for his work on sex hormones"
"for his work on polymethylenes and higher terpenes"
Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt Leopold Ruzicka
Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt Leopold Ruzicka
half 1/2 of the prize half 1/2 of the prize
Germany Switzerland
Berlin University
Berlin, Germany; Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut (now Max-Planck-Institut) für Biochemie
Berlin-Dahlem, Germany		 Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
Zurich, Switzerland
b. 1903
d. 1995		 b. 1887
(in Vukovar, then Austria-Hungary)
d. 1976
 
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