| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Chemistry | |
| Year: | 1938 |
| Number: | 16 - 0 |
| Nominee 1: |
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| Name: | Adolf F Butenandt |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1903 |
| Year, Death: | 1995 |
| Profession: | prof |
| University: | Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Biochemie (now Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry) |
| City: | Berlin-Dahlem |
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
| City: | Berlin-Dahlem |
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1939 | |
| Nominee 2: |
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| Name: | Leopold Ruzicka |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1887 |
| Year, Death: | 1976 |
| Profession: | prof |
| University: | Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (Federal Institute of Technology) |
| City: | Zurich |
| Country: | SWITZERLAND (CH) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1939 | |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | Ernst Waser |
| Gender: | M |
| Profession: | chairholder at invited university |
| City: | Zurich |
| Country: | SWITZERLAND (CH) |
| Comments: | Butenandt was caused by the authorities of his country to decline the award but later received the diploma and the medal. |
