Who continued the research on estrogen after the death of Edgar Allen?
James Watson
Adolf Butenandt
Gregor Mendel
Elizabeth Blackburn
Answer
Adolf Butenandt was a German biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1939 for his work on the chemical structure of sex hormones. He continued the research on estrogen after the death of Edgar Allen, and was able to isolate and identify it as a steroid hormone.
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