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Casimir Funk

1884 - 1967

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Casimir Funk (Polish: Kazimierz Funk [kaˈʑimjɛʂ ˈfuŋk]; February 23, 1884 – November 19, 1967) was a Polish biochemist generally credited with being among the first to formulate the concept of vitamins (the first being the English chemist Frederick Gowland Hopkins) after publishing a landmark medical writing in 1912. He highlighted these "vital amines" (or "vitamines") as critical in fighting significant diseases such as pellagra and rickets, and his analysis influenced a major shift in scientific thinking. His scientific work involved research in Poland, France and the United Kingdom. In 1920, he became a citizen of the United States where he continued his work. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Casimir Funk is the 150th most popular chemist (down from 29th in 2019), the 116th most popular biography from Poland (down from 45th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Polish Chemist.

Casimir Funk was a Polish biochemist who first coined the term "vitamine" in 1912.

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Among chemists, Casimir Funk ranks 150 out of 602. Before him are Roger D. Kornberg, Jerome Karle, Kurt Wüthrich, Johann Rudolf Glauber, Glenn T. Seaborg, and Sune Bergström. After him are Marshall Warren Nirenberg, Hermann Kolbe, Harry Kroto, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Robert W. Holley, and Paul D. Boyer.

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Among people born in 1884, Casimir Funk ranks 25. Before him are Theodor Svedberg, Franz Halder, Gaston Bachelard, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Hermann Rorschach, and Auguste Piccard. After him are Lion Feuchtwanger, Vincent Auriol, Emil Jannings, Rudolf Bultmann, Gerald Gardner, and Edward Sapir. Among people deceased in 1967, Casimir Funk ranks 29. Before him are Ilya Ehrenburg, Gordon Allport, Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, Jaroslav Heyrovský, Rodion Malinovsky, and Johannes Itten. After him are Felix Yusupov, John Coltrane, Wolfgang Köhler, Woody Guthrie, Hermann Joseph Muller, and Norman Angell.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Casimir Funk ranks 116 out of 1,694. Before him are Saint Casimir (1458), Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898), Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1512), Ulrich Beck (1944), Karl Hanke (1903), and Hanna Reitsch (1912). After him are Władysław Sikorski (1881), Arthur Liebehenschel (1901), Alexander Jagiellon (1461), Pola Negri (1897), Alfred von Tirpitz (1849), and Klaus von Klitzing (1943).

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Among CHEMISTS In Poland

Among chemists born in Poland, Casimir Funk ranks 7. Before him are Fritz Haber (1868), Tadeusz Reichstein (1897), Walther Nernst (1864), Kurt Alder (1902), Friedrich Bergius (1884), and Konrad Emil Bloch (1912). After him are Antoni Grabowski (1857), Clara Immerwahr (1870), Johann Wilhelm Ritter (1776), Richard Abegg (1869), Ignacy Mościcki (1867), and Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822).

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