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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-winning 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.