1943 HARRIS, Stanton Avery (1902 – ); ET AL
Synthetic biotin.
Synthesis of biotin. With D. E. Wolf, R. Mozingo, and K. Folkers.
GMN 1088 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/855
1943 KÖGL, Fritz (1897 – 1954); HAM, E. J. Ten
Zur Kenntnis des β-Biotins. 34. Mitteilung über pflanzliche Wachstumstoffe.
Isolation of α-biotin.
GMN 1089 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/862
1946 BICKNELL, Franklin (1906 – 1964); PRESCOTT, Frederick (1904 – )
The vitamins in medicine.
4th edition, 2 vols, 1980.
GMN 3709 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4460
1947 SHORB, Mary Shaw (1907 – 1990)
Unidentified growth factors for Lactobacillus lactis in refined liver extract.
Mary Shorb provided a method of biological assay of liver extracts that made possible the isolation of vitamin B12.
GMN 1090 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/869
1948 RICKES, Edward Lawrence (1912 – ); ET AL
Crystalline vitamin B12.
With N. G. Brink, F. R. Koniuszy, T. R. Wood, and K. Folkers.
GMN 1091 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/872
1948 SMITH, Ernest Lester (1904 – 1992)
Presence of cobalt in the anti-pernicious anaemia factor.
Independently of Rickes et al., Lester Smith isolated vitamin B12 in Britain. See also Nature (Lond.), 1948, 161, 638.
GMN 1092 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/875
1955 HODGKIN, Dorothy Crowfoot (1910 – 1994)
The crystal structure of the hexacarboxylic acid derived from B12 and the molecular structure of the vitamin.
The final structure of vitamin B12. With J. Pickworth, J.H. Robertson, K.N. Trueblood, R.J. Prosen, J. G. White. In 1964 Hodgkin was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for her determinations by X-ray techniques of …
GMN 6928 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9093
2012 SEMBA, Richard David
The vitamin A story: Lifting the shadow of death.
(Thanks to Malcolm Kottler for this reference.)
GMN 14331 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16656
