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Casimir Funk
Nutrition Scientist
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A Polish biochemist who in 1912 proposed the concept of vital amines, later shortened to vitamins, to describe trace dietary substances whose absence causes specific deficiency diseases, giving nutrition science its founding vocabulary for micronutrients.
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Notable ForCoining the term vitamin in 1912 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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