| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| Year: | 1936 |
| Number: | 5 - 0 |
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Nominee 1:
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| Name: | Adolf F Butenandt |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1903 |
| Year, Death: | 1995 |
| University: | Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Biochemie (now Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry) |
| City: | Berlin-Dahlem |
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
| City: | Berlin-Dahlem |
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1939 |
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Nominee 2:
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| Name: | Leopold Ruzicka |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1887 |
| Year, Death: | 1976 |
| University: | Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (Federal Institute of Technology) |
| City: | Zurich |
| Country: | SWITZERLAND (CH) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1939 |
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Nominator:
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| Name: | Samuel Smiles |
| Gender: | M |
| Profession: | chairholder at invited university |
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
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| Comments: |
The nomination was divided between A. Butenandt and L. Ruzicka.
Butenandt was caused by the authorities of his country to decline the award but later received the diploma and the medal. |
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