biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1906–89)
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| biography:
| Chemist and inventor, born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He studied at Tufts and Harvard, and in the late 1930s developed a synthesis of riboflavin that made the large-scale production of vitamin B2 economical. The practical synthesis of other vitamins resulted from this breakthrough. After a long career as a research chemist, he became a professor of chemistry at Wesleyan University, Connecticut (1969). |
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