Casimir Funk (Polish: Kazimierz Funk [kaˈʑimjɛʂ ˈfuŋk]; February 23, 1884 – November 19, 1967) was a Polish biochemist generally credited with being among...
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Cordillera Casimir Dudevant, French nobleman Casimir Ehrnrooth, Finnish magnate, former chairman of Nokia Corporation Casimir Funk (Kazimierz Funk), Polish...
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his publication from Japanese to German. In 1911 a Polish biochemist Casimir Funk isolated the antineuritic substance from rice bran (the modern thiamine)...
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portmanteau coined in 1912 by the biochemist Casimir Funk while working at the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine. Funk created the name from vital and amine...
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Notes Vitamin B1 Thiamine Umetaro Suzuki 1910 Failed to gain publicity. Casimir Funk 1912 Vitamin B2 Riboflavin D.T Smith and E.G Hendrick 1926 Max Tishler...
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from the word vitamine, which was coined in 1912 by Polish biochemist Casimir Funk, who isolated a complex of water-soluble micronutrients essential to...
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processing. Casimir Funk, who helped elucidate the role of thiamin in the etiology of beriberi, was an early investigator of the problem of pellagra. Funk suggested...
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and the Australian Vegemite (1922) became successful as products. 1912 Casimir Funk discovered an active ingredient against deficiency diseases which he...
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caviomorph), whereas mice and rats do. In 1912, the Polish biochemist Casimir Funk developed the concept of vitamins. One of these was thought to be the...
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the Year Award AMS Einstein Lectureship Barnard Medal Caltech Service Casimir Funk Natural Sciences Award Charles Proteus Steinmetz Medal High School Spelling...
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Fromm: chemist, entrepreneur, one of the inventors of the rubber condom. Casimir Funk:, biochemist, the first to formulate (1912) the concept and the term...
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treatments until the use of levodopa, which, although first synthesized by Casimir Funk in 1911, did not enter clinical use until 1967. By the late 1980s deep...
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his discovery failed to gain publicity. In 1912 Polish-born biochemist Casimir Funk, working in London, isolated the same complex of micronutrients and proposed...
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moved to the Cancer Hospital Research Institute where he worked with Casimir Funk who had coined the word vitamine (from vital amine). This was when Drummond...
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Richard Feynman (1918–1988), physicist; 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics Casimir Funk (1884–1967), biochemist, generally credited with the first formulation...
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States Alma mater Lviv Polytechnic Known for Szybalski's rule Awards Casimir Funk Natural Science Award (2003) Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta...
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mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot, physicist Joseph Rotblat, biochemist Casimir Funk, and Moshe Prywes, an Israeli physician who was the first President of...
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a final degree in chemistry, assisting in research with chemist Dr. Casimir Funk, an early discoverer of vitamins who helped coin the word "vitamin" in...
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Robert J. Van de Graaff (born 1901), American physicist. January 19 – Casimir Funk (born 1884), Polish biochemist, coined the term vitamin. January 27 –...
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Titanic Casimir Funk (1884–1967), Polish biochemist The Funk family of American professional wrestlers: Dory Funk (1919–1973), family patriarch Dory Funk Jr...
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its food. Coal and food had to be rationed. In 1912, the biochemist, Casimir Funk, theorised that beriberi, scurvy and rickets were all diseases caused...
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1895) November 15 – Alice Lake, American actress (b. 1895) November 19 – Casimir Funk, Polish biochemist (b. 1884) November 20 – Józef Skoczyński, Polish Roman...
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reduced their use dramatically. Levodopa was first synthesized in 1911 by Casimir Funk, but it received little attention until the mid 20th century. It entered...
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philosopher (d. 1969) 1883 – Guy C. Wiggins, American painter (d. 1962) 1884 – Casimir Funk, Polish biochemist (d. 1967) 1889 – Musidora, French actress and director...
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It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1959 for Casimir Funk, an American (formerly Polish) biochemist who, while working at the Lister...
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(died 1963), Australian bacteriologist and serologist. February 23 – Casimir Funk (died 1967), Polish biochemist, coiner of the term vitamin. August 5...
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Preventive Medicine, to take the work further which led to the discovery by Casimir Funk of the cause of the disease in the dietary deficiency of the elements...
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Archive – Motivation for Casimir Funk". NobelPrize.org. April 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020. "Nomination Archive – Casimir Funk". NobelPrize.org. April...
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of the entactogenic drug MDMA (Ecstasy), developed by Anton Köllisch. Casimir Funk identifies vitamins. Sylhet is reconstituted into the non-regulation...
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discoveries of Polish scientist Casimir Funk who isolated natural substances he dubbed "vitamins". Shaklee began corresponding with Funk and expressed interest...
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