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Adolf Windaus
1876–1959 · Germany · Born in the 1800s
Nobel Chemistry 1928
German chemist who clarified the constitution of sterols and founded the chemistry of vitamin D.
Nobel Prize work
He elucidated the molecular structure of sterols such as cholesterol and demonstrated their connection with vitamins, notably showing that irradiated ergosterol becomes vitamin D.