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How many years apart did Adolf Windaus and his doctoral student win the Nobel prize?

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Adolf Windaus and his doctoral student Kurt Alder won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 11 years apart. Windaus won in 1928 for his work on the structure of cholesterol, and Alder won in 1939 for his work on the synthesis of new organic compounds.
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