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Jun 22, 2004 · American work on pernicious anemia. The next award that we can, but only with hindsight, relate to vitamins was that given in 1934 to George Whipple, George Minot and William Murphy of the U.S.A. “for their discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anaemia,” and the first to be divided between three people.
In humans there are 13 vitamins: 4 fat-soluble (A, D, E, and K) and 9 water-soluble (8 B vitamins and vitamin C). Water-soluble vitamins dissolve easily in water and, in general, are readily excreted from the body, to the degree that urinary output is a strong predictor of vitamin consumption. [ 47 ]
Abstract. The discovery of the vitamins was a major scientific achievement in our understanding of health and disease. In 1912, Casimir Funk originally coined the term "vitamine". The major period of discovery began in the early nineteenth century and ended at the mid-twentieth century. The puzzle of each vitamin was solved through the work and ...
- Richard D. Semba
- 2012
nutrient. vitamin. Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins (born June 20, 1861, Eastbourne, East Sussex, Eng.—died May 16, 1947, Cambridge) was a British biochemist, who received (with Christiaan Eijkman) the 1929 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovery of essential nutrient factors—now known as vitamins —needed in animal diets to ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Oct 8, 2018 · The process was invented by Dr. Tadeusz Reichstein of the Swiss Institute of Technology in Zurich. Vitamin D (promotes calcium absorption in the gut and enable bone mineralization) — In 1922, Edward Mellanby discovered Vitamin D while researching a disease called rickets.
- Mary Bellis
Feb 23, 2024 · Associated Press/Alamy. Casimir Funk, the Polish biochemist who coined the term “vitamins” for the vital class of molecules that help keep us alive, is the subject of today’s Google doodle ...
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Casimir Funk. Casimir Funk (Polish: Kazimierz Funk [kaˈʑimjɛʂ ˈfuŋk]; February 23, 1884 – November 19, 1967) was a Polish biochemist generally credited with being among the first to formulate the concept of vitamins after publishing a landmark medical writing in 1912. He highlighted these "vital amines " (or "vitamines") as critical in ...
