Urbanizacion El Real del Campanario. E-12, Bajo B 29688 Estepona (Malaga). SPAIN, Spain
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WINDAUS ADOLF: (1876-1959) German chemist, Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry, 1928. Manuscript D.S., Adolf Windaus, one page, 4to, n.p., 12th June 1948, in German. Windaus responds to a researcher's questionnaire entitled World Inquiry, with their questions, in English, at the head of the page, '1. Were your scientific debut easy or difficult? 2. Did means of living (another profession or a private income) enable you to make yourself known in science? Or did you live solely through your work of laboratory? 3. What work (or what discovery) made yourself more famous? Which do you consider as your masterpiece?'. Windaus provides his answers beneath, in full, '1) I entered science without any difficulties. I passed my doctoral examination in Freiburg at the end of 1899 and, thanks to the efforts of my teacher Kiliani, was able to habilitate in Freiburg in 1903. 2) Due to the early death of my father, I was economically independent and not dependent on income from my job. 3) Elucidation of the antirachitic vitamin. Investigations on the irradiation of ergosterol and the chemical processes involved'. A few very minor, light creases to the upper edge, VG
