1935 - Nutrition

Nutrition

German researchers synthesize vitamin B2 (see 1932; 1933). The vitamin will be called riboflavin.

University of California, Berkeley, biochemist Herbert McLean Evans, 53, isolates vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol) from wheat germ oil with help from Oliver and Gladys Emerson.

Vitamin K—essential for blood "Koagulation"—is isolated by C. P. H. Dam and by Edward A. Doisy at St. Louis University (see 1937; population [Dam, Doisy], 1929).

Vitamin pioneer Lafayette B. Mendel dies at New Haven, Conn., December 9 at age 63.