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...they have believed that it must be a vitamin. For half a century this something has been famous as "vitamin D." Virtually all U.S. milk and much bread and breakfast cereals are fortified with it by a process developed at the University of Wisconsin in 1924 by Biologist Harry Steenbock. He patented the technique and the royalties have enriched Steenbock's Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. Now a biochemist and Steenbock protégé at the same university, Dr. Hector DeLuca, says that the stuff is not a vitamin like the other simple, essential components in food...
Died. Harry Steenbock, 81, longtime (1908-56) University of Wisconsin research chemist and pioneer in vitamin D-enriched foods; of a heart attack; in Madison, Wis. In 1924, Steenbock discovered that vitamin D could be "activated" with ultraviolet rays from a quartz-vapor lamp, quickly treated milk and other foods to provide the first new source of the rickets-preventing "sun vitamin" since cod-liver oil. His patents could have made him wealthy, but instead he helped set up a foundation to handle royalties, which netted $10,000,000 for the university before a federal court in 1945 ruled...
...most prominent and prosperous farmer in the district, former Mayor Johannes Steenbock occupies one of the handsomest houses in the tiny Schleswig-Holstein village of Bark. Its tall, sloping roof covers two attic floors and provides frequent shelter for refugee farmworkers streaming into Germany from the Russian-held East. The refugees, like Farmer Steenbock's large family, find plenty of room on the lower floor and seldom, if ever, visit the attics...
...anonymous letter-writer-presumably a refugee who had wandered upstairs-recently wrote health officials in nearby Bad Segeberg, urging them in horror to hurry out and take a look in a room in Steenbock's attic. What the health officers found there was enough to make their flesh crawl: half-dead on a filthy mattress huddled a tiny, emaciated creature that looked less like a child than some weird variety of furless monkey. It was about 3 ft. tall, weighed less than 20 Ibs. Long, black hair hung in greasy strings around its shriveled face. It was too weak...
Only once has the foundation's rule over vitamin D come close to being broken. Year ago, California's southern district court held that the Steenbock patents were invalid because ultraviolet radiation was a nonpatentable "process of nature." The foundation demanded a rehearing; two months ago, the court withdrew its earlier opinion. (Recently the foundation slashed its royalty charges...