1913 OSBORNE, Thomas Burr (1859 – 1929); MENDEL, Lafayette Benedict (1872 – 1935)

The relation of growth to the chemical constituents of the diet.

Like McCollum and Davis, Osborne and Mendel showed the necessity in diet of a factor which was later to be known as vitamin A.

GMN 1050 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/599