An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”
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Synthesis of ascorbic acid.Chemistry and Industry, 645-646, 1933.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, to be produced cheaply on a large scale for medicinal use. Subjects: NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Chemistry, NUTRITION / DIET › Vitamins Permalink: historyofmedicine.com/id/16602 |