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In which field did Adolf Butenandt, Windaus's doctoral student, win his Nobel Prize?
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Adolf Butenandt was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 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. Butenandt's research focused on the chemical structure of sex hormones, and he was the first to isolate and identify the female sex hormone estrogen.
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