In what year was estrogen identified by Adolf Butenandt?
1923
1929
1935
1941
Answer
Adolf Butenandt was a German chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1939 for his work on sex hormones. He was the first to identify estrogen, the female sex hormone, in 1929.
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