Adolf Windaus
German chemist
Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus was a German chemist who won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1928 for his work on sterols and their relation to vitamins. He was the doctoral advisor of Adolf Butenandt who also won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1939. Wikipedia
Born: December 25, 1876, Berlin, Germany
Died: June 9, 1959 (age 82 years), Göttingen, Germany
Nationality: German
Notable students: Adolf Butenandt, Gerhart Jander, and Erhard Fernholz
Awards: Goethe-Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft (1941) and Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1928)
Children: Günter Windaus
Partner: Elisabeth Windaus
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