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Adolf Windaus
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Adolf Windaus

1876 – 1959 · aged 83

German chemist (1876–1959)

Born
25 Dec 1876 · Berlin
Died
9 Jun 1959 · Göttingen

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 95 years
  1. 25 Dec 1876BornBorn in Berlin
  2. 1927AwardAdolf-von-Baeyer Gold Medal
  3. 1928AwardHonorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
  4. 1928AwardNobel Prize in Chemistry
  5. 1941AwardGoethe Medal for Art and Science
  6. 1951AwardCommander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
  7. 1952AwardPour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order
  8. 9 Jun 1959DiedDied in Göttingen

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1876 – 1959).

  1. 18961896 Summer Olympics
  2. 1898Spanish–American War
  3. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  4. 1914 – 1918World War I
  5. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  6. 1917Balfour Declaration
  7. 1917February Revolution
  8. 1917October Revolution
  9. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  10. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  11. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  12. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  13. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  14. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  15. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  16. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1938Munich Agreement
  18. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  19. 1939 – 1945World War II
  20. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  21. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  22. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  23. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  24. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  25. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  26. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  27. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  29. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  30. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  31. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  32. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  33. 1956Suez Crisis
  34. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  35. 1959Antarctic Treaty System

Biography

Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus (German pronunciation: [ˈaːdɔlf ˈvɪndaʊs] ; 25 December 1876 – 9 June 1959) 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.

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