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2012
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1939

Adolf Butenandt, Leopold Ruzicka

Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt
Leopold Ruzicka

Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt

Leopold Ruzicka

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1939 was divided equally between Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt "for his work on sex hormones" and Leopold Ruzicka "for his work on polymethylenes and higher terpenes".

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