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Who was Adolf Windaus’ doctoral student who also won a Nobel Prize?

  • Adolf Butenandt

  • Niels Bohr

  • Marie Curie

  • Ernest O. Lawrence

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Adolf Butenandt was a German chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1939 for his work on sex hormones. He was a doctoral student of Adolf Windaus, who also won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1928 for his work on sterols. Butenandt's research led to the discovery of the female sex hormone estradiol and the male sex hormone testosterone.
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