VitaminsVitamins Allvitamin Avitamin B-1vitamin B-2vitamin B-3vitamin B-6folic acidvitamin B-12vitamin Cvitamin Dvitamin Evitamin Kpantothenic acidbiotinvitamin historyvitamin RDAfortificationMost of the first RDA scientists were womenMore than two million sailors may have perished from scurvy over the centuriesHow the visual function of Vitamin A was discoveredVitamin Discoveries and Disasters: History, Science, and Controversies by Frances R FrankenburgHow About a Vitamin D-Enriched Beer?Linus Pauling: I owe my work on vitamin C to Victor HerbertTwo most prominent U.S. nutritionists in 1917 accept importance of vitaminsGeorge Minot describes discovery of diet cure for pernicious anemiaLydia Roberts writes draft of first RDAs overnight in 1941Casimir Funk sums up scientific evidence for “vitamines” in 1912Vitamin D “Not as Toxic as Was Once Thought”One of First Vitamin-Fortified Breakfast CerealsChildren with rickets from 1920s ViennaVictor Herbert induces a folate deficiency in himselfMore than 1,000 people died in 1945 from deficiency diseases in the United StatesHenrik Dam (1895-1976)Vitamin A toxicity from Polar Bear LiverConvicts get pardons for pellagra experimentsHow vitamin E was named tocopherolHerbert McLean Evans discovers vitamin EDorothy Hodgkin (1910-1994)History of the Discovery of Vitamin D by Anthony NormanJoseph Goldberger (1874 – 1929)How Vitamin D and the Sun Came to Be Linked by R.W. ChesneyVitamin D, cod-liver oil, sunlight, and rickets: a historical perspective by Kumaravel RajakumarHistory of Scurvy & Vitamin C by Kenneth CarpenterEvolution and the Need for Ascorbic Acid by Linus Pauling (1970)Nobel Prize speech in 1929 by Frederick Gowland HopkinsNobel Prize and the Discovery of Vitamins by Kenneth J. Carpenter (2004)History of U.S. Iodine Fortification and SupplementationScurvy: classic signsScurvy: Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess (1920)Vitamins’ Old, Old Edge by Carl ZimmerHistory of Folic acid fortificationLucy Wills (1888-1964)Polar Journeys: The Role of Food and Nutrition in Early Exploration by Robert E. FeeneyHistory of folic acid by AV Hoffbrand and DG Weir (2001)Marguerite Davis (1887-1967)Vitamin A Story: Lifting the Shadow of Death by Richard D. SembaCasimir Funk (1884-1967)Charles Glen King (1896-1988)E.L. Robert Stokstad (1913-1995)Christiaan Eijkman (1858-1930)Thomas Jukes (1906-1999)Paul Gyorgy (1893-1976)Roger J. Williams (1893-1988)Victor Herbert (1927-2002)James Lind (1716-1794)Elmer McCollum (1879-1967)Harry Steenbock (1886- 1967)Edward B. Vedder (1878 – 1952)
