Testosterone: Nobel Prize In Chemistry, 1939

 

                                                      Nobel Prize In Chemistry, 1939

                                                           Synthesis Of Testosterone 

Testosterone 

Ruzicka was not only “Lord of the Carbon Rings” in the 1930s, he was also at the forefront of hormone research. He succeeded in defining the structure of the male sex hormones androsterone and testosterone, and was able to synthesize these important messenger substances in the laboratory. In 1939, just after the outbreak of World War II, Leopold Ruzicka was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in recognition of his work.

Leopold Ruzicka and Adolf Butenandt won the 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their independent research on sex hormones, including the discovery that testosterone can be synthesized from cholesterol: 

Produced From Cholesterol 

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