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Authorised form of nameButenandt; Adolf Friedrich Johann (1903 - 1995)
Dates1903 - 1995
Date of birth24/03/1903
Date of death18/01/1995
ActivityMedals and prizes:
Nobel Prize (Chemistry) 1939
Membership categoryForeign Member
Date of election25/04/1968
Age at election65
SourceObituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1998 vol 44 pp 77-92, plate, by Muhammad Akhtar and Monika E Akhtar
CodeNA1797
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1968/34Butenandt, Adolf: certificate of election to the Royal Society
HWT/20/16Correspondence with Department of Education and Science, Ford Foundation, European Scientists and academies regarding RSEP, Bad Godesberg meeting and papers regarding RSEP Fellowships Subcommittee meetingMarch 1967
IM/000693Joachim Hammerling and Adolf Butenandt05 October 1961
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