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Henrik Dam

1895 - 1976

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Carl Peter Henrik Dam (21 February 1895 – 17 April 1976) was a Danish biochemist and physiologist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1943 for joint work with Edward Doisy in discovering vitamin K and its role in human physiology. Dam's key experiment involved feeding a cholesterol-free diet to chickens. He initially replicated experiments reported by scientists at the Ontario Agricultural College (OAC). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henrik Dam is the 103rd most popular chemist (down from 34th in 2019), the 53rd most popular biography from Denmark (down from 42nd in 2019) and the most popular Danish Chemist.

Henrik Dam is most famous for his design of the Henrik Dam Bridge, which spans the Little Belt on the Danish island of Funen. The bridge is a single-span suspension bridge, and was completed in 1937.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Henrik Dam ranks 103 out of 602. Before him are William Howard Stein, Arne Tiselius, Stanford Moore, Konrad Emil Bloch, Vincent du Vigneaud, and Joseph Black. After him are George de Hevesy, Paul J. Crutzen, Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Paul Hermann Müller, Odd Hassel, and Yves Chauvin.

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Among people born in 1895, Henrik Dam ranks 28. Before him are Semyon Timoshenko, Ragnar Frisch, Dolores Ibárruri, Gerhard Domagk, Anastas Mikoyan, and Sergei Yesenin. After him are Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, André Frédéric Cournand, Levi Eshkol, J. Edgar Hoover, Cemal Gürsel, and Aleksandr Vasilevsky. Among people deceased in 1976, Henrik Dam ranks 20. Before him are André Malraux, Yonatan Netanyahu, Eyvind Johnson, Trofim Lysenko, Man Ray, and Prince Paul of Yugoslavia. After him are Jacques Monod, Benjamin Britten, Lars Onsager, Joachim Peiper, Ulrike Meinhof, and J. Paul Getty.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Henrik Dam ranks 53 out of 1,032. Before him are Valdemar IV of Denmark (1320), Saxo Grammaticus (1150), Olaf I of Denmark (1050), Frederick VII of Denmark (1808), Nicolai Abildgaard (1743), and Carl Nielsen (1865). After him are Frederick II of Denmark (1534), Nicolas Steno (1638), Asta Nielsen (1881), Frederick I of Denmark (1471), Haakon III of Norway (1182), and Johannes Fibiger (1867).

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Among CHEMISTS In Denmark

Among chemists born in Denmark, Henrik Dam ranks 1. After him are S. P. L. Sørensen (1868), Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted (1879), Sophia Brahe (1556), Rasmus Bartholin (1625), Morten P. Meldal (1954), Johan Kjeldahl (1849), and Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen (1826).

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