biography
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| lived:
| (1884–1967)
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| biography:
| Biochemist, born in Warsaw, Poland. He studied in Berlin and Bern, and became head of the biochemical department at the Cancer Hospital Research Institute, London (1913–15). He emigrated to the USA in 1915, and later headed a research institute in Warsaw (1923–7) and Paris (1928–39). He was best known for his work on vitamins, which he identified and named vitamines in 1912. |
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