Casimir Funk
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Casimir Funk was a Polish biochemist who formulated the definitive concept of vitamins and was the first to isolate a vitamin from rice bran in 1911. He coined the term "vitamines" in his landmark 191
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Dr. Casimir Funk at his research laboratory in New York City in 1953
Christiaan Eijkman
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Christiaan Eijkman was a Dutch physician and professor of physiology whose demonstration that beriberi is caused by poor diet led to the discovery of antineuritic vitamins. Together with Sir Frederick
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…he succeeded in his collegiate goals, without any specific obstacles hindering his efforts at those various institutions. After reading an article by Christiaan Eijkman that indicated that persons who ate brown rice were less vulnerable to beri-beri than those who ate only the fully milled product, Funk tried to isolate…
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Christiaan Eijkman