An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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Über die Synthese des Testikelhormons (Androsteron) und Stereoisomerer desselben durch Abbau hydrierter Sterine.

Helv. chim. Acta, 17, 1395-1406, 1934.

First complete synthesis of a sex hormone (androsterone). With M. W. Goldberg, J. Meyer, H. Brüngger, and E. Eichenberger.
In 1939 Ruzicka shared the 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Butenandt (No. 1195) "for his work on polymethylenes and higher terpenes, including the first chemical synthesis of male sex hormones."



Subjects: Ductless Glands: Internal Secretion › Gonads: Sex Hormones, NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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