FUNK, Casimir (1884 – 1967)
1884 – 1967
3 entries in the GMN corpus.
Image source Unknown photographer · scanned from Wielka Encyklopedia Powszechna PWN, Warsaw, Poland, 1964, vol. 4, page 55 · Public domain
1911 CE–1912 CE
#1047
On the chemical nature of the substance which cures polyneuritis in birds induced by a diet of polished rice.
One of the earliest attempts to isolate what later became known as vitamin B1.See No. 1051. Funk determined the chemical nature of the substance in rice polishings which could cure beriberi.
1914 CE
#1051
Die Vitamine
A pioneer work in the study of vitamins. Much of the previous literature is reviewed. Funk introduced the term “vitamine”, later changed to “vitamin”. In 1912 (J. State Med., 20, 341) he postul…
1929 CE
#1189
The male hormone.
Funk and Harrow obtained crude active male hormone extracts from male urine.