1932 - Nutrition

Nutrition

Nobel laureate Otto H. Warburg, 49, and his colleagues at Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology find a yellow coenzyme that catalyzes the transfer of hydrogen atoms (see vitamin B2—riboflavin, 1935).

Entiat, Wash.-born University of Pittsburgh biochemist Charles Glen King, 36, isolates vitamin C (ascorbic acid) (see 1933; Szent-Györgyi, 1928).