1930 - Nutrition

Nutrition

Vitamin D is isolated in its crystalline form calciferol and is soon being used to fortify butter, margarine, and other foods (see Steenbock, 1927; Borden's milk, 1933).

Edwin J. Cohn at Harvard Medical School develops a concentrate 100 times as potent as liver for treating pernicious anemia (see 1926; 1929; 1948).

Nobel laureate vitamin pioneer Christiaan Eijkmann dies at Utrecht November 5 at age 72.