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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

HIRST, Sir Edmund Langley (1898 – 1975)

1898 – 1975

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1933

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Synthesis of ascorbic acid.

HAWORTH, Sir Walter Norman (1883 – 1950) HIRST, Sir Edmund Langley (1898 – 1975)

Haworth and Hirst successfully synthesized vitamin C in the laboratory. This was the first vitamin to be artificially produced. Their breakthrough made it possible for vitamin C, or ascorbic acid as Haworth called it,…