AKA Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus

Born: 25-Dec-1876
Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
Died: 9-Jun-1959
Location of death: Göttingen, Germany
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Chemist

Nationality: Germany
Executive summary: Investigated cholesterol, Vitamin D

Father: Adolf Windaus
Mother: Margarete Elster
Wife: Elisabeth Resau (m. 1915, two sons, one daughter)
Son: Günter (b. 1916)
Son: Gustav (b. 1918)
Daughter: Margarete (b. 1921)

    High School: Französisches Gymnasium, Berlin
    University: PhD, University of Freiburg (1899)
    Professor: University of Innsbruck (1906-15)
    Professor: Chemistry, University of Göttingen (1915-44)

    Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1928

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