An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 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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  • 1081

The isolation of vitamin K1.

J. biol. Chem., 130, 219-34, 1939.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Binkley, MacCorquodale, Thayer, Doisy.

In 1943 Doisy received half of  the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine  "for his discovery of the chemical nature of vitamin K."  Henrik Dam received the other half "for his discovery of Vitamin K." See also No. 1082.



Subjects: NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine , NUTRITION / DIET › Vitamins
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