biography
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Dam, Carl Peter Henrik
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| male
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| lived:
| (1895–1976)
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| biography:
| Biochemist, born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was professor at Copenhagen (1923–40), and in 1940 went to the USA where he taught at the University of Rochester (1942–5) and became a member of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1945). He was also on the staff of the Polytechnic Institute, Copenhagen (1941–65). For his discovery of the coagulant agent vitamin K (1934) he shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1943. |
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