Word: vitamine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Doisy and Vitamin K. Drs. Henrik Dam and Edward Adelbert Doisy share the 1943 medicine prize ($29,500.07) for discovery and synthesis, respectively, of vitamin K, the "blood-coagulation vitamin." This is the fifth time vitamin research has won a Nobel prize...
...tiny hemorrhages under their skins. Their blood, he found, contained very little prothrombin, a blood element necessary for clotting. He cured them by feeding them pigs' liver, alfalfa, cabbage, spinach, etc. In 1935 he announced that he had isolated the curative substance from the foods, called it vitamin K after his scientific word for it-Koagulationsvitamine...
High Ethics. Actually the foundation was started to avoid these very evils. After University of Wisconsin's famed biochemist, Dr. Harry Steenbock, made his vitamin discovery,* he wanted to avoid "unscrupulous commercialization" of his find. He decided to let the university make the money, use it for research...
...university. Each put in $100. They picked as president a crack patent lawyer, Chicago's grey-maned, hard-bitten George Haight. Since then, Haight has decided which companies will be licensed to use the Steenbock patents (each pays royalties, averaging 10% and less); how they shall advertise their vitamin products; what fields each could take. Example: Standard Brands could irradiate yeast, but nothing else. In all, the foundation has piled up a fund of $9,000,000. which eventually will go to the university. So far, the university has received $2,500,000. Estimated income this year...
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...