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Did Adolf Windaus discover any vitamins?

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No, Adolf Windaus did not discover any vitamins. He was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1928 for his work on sterols and their derivatives, including cholesterol. His research on cholesterol led to the discovery of the structure of vitamin D, but he did not discover the vitamin itself.
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