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Vitamin
1997 George Wald, biologist, Nobel Prize winner for discovering vitamin A in the retina

1996 After 27 years, Betty Rubble debuts as a Flintstone vitamin

1994 Linus Pauling, Nobel prize scientist (Vitamin C advocate), dies at 93

1988 Charles Glenn King, biochemist (discovered vitamin C), dies at 91

1986 Edward A Doisy Sr, discoverer of vitamin K (Nobel 1943), dies at 92

1986 Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, bio-chemist (Vitamin C, Nobel 1937), dies at 93

1970 Linus Pauling declares large doses of Vitamin C could ward off colds

1958 Harry Nicholls Holmes, Dr. (crystallized vitamin A), dies at 78

1947 J Arens and D van Dorpen synthetise vitamin A

1932 Vitamin C 1st isolated, CC King, University of Pittsburgh

1930 Christiaan E˜kman, bacteriologist (vitamin B1, Nobel 1929), dies at 72

1896 Charles Glenn King, biochemist, discovered vitamin C

1893 Edward A Doisy Sr, U.S. bio-chemist, Vitamin K1, Nobel 1943

1893 Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Hungary, biochemist, Vitamin C, Nobel 1937

1879 Harry Nicholls Holmes, Penn, Dr., crystallized vitamin A

1865 Gerrit Grijns, Dutch physiologist, Vitamin E



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