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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...
...them polished rice; then natural rice, with all its bran coating. When the pigeons got the coating they thrived; when they did not they suffered from polyneuritis. Obviously, the bran-fed pigeons were getting a nutrient that the others were not. Funk concentrated the nutrient, now known as vitamin...
...Funk continued his cancer research, later theorized that oncotine and oncostimuline affect the growth of tumors, and postulated that an imbalance of the two might cause the disease. All the while, he retained more than a proprietary interest in nutrition, served as a research consultant to the U.S. Vitamin & Pharmaceutical Corp., helped develop artificial vitamins...
...Including Dr. E. V. McCollum, a discoverer of vitamin A (1913), who died recently at 88 (TIME...
With the last $4,300 of his Navy winnings, Kauffman founded his own company, sold vitamin tablets and liver shots from the basement of his home. As sales increased, Kauffman also sold seven friends on investing in his struggling firm; each $1,000 of their original investment today is worth...