| Birth: | Feb. 21, 1896 | | Death: | Apr. 17, 1976 | 
Biochemist, Nobel Prize recipient. Born in Copenhagen, he was educated at the Technical University in Copenhagen where he was professor 1941-65. During the 1930s, while working with biochemistry and nutritional physiology he discovered and explored the vitamin K. In 1943 he and the American biochemist Edward Doisy shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology/Medicine for their work on vitamin K. He lated investigated vitamin E deficiency diseases. (bio by: Erik Skytte)
Search Amazon for Henrik Dam | | | Burial:
Bispebjerg Cemetery
Copenhagen
Hovedstaden, Denmark |
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Originally Created by: Erik Skytte
Record added: Jun 02, 2005
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