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Casimir Funk

Nutrition Scientist

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Health and Wellness Atlas. "Casimir Funk." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-health.interactiveatlas.org/figures/casimir-funk.

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Health and Wellness Atlas. (n.d.). Casimir Funk. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-health.interactiveatlas.org/figures/casimir-funk

BibTeX

@misc{healthandwellnessatlas-casimir-funk,
  author = {Health and Wellness Atlas},
  title = {Casimir Funk},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-health.interactiveatlas.org/figures/casimir-funk},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

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.

Facts

Birth Year

1884 1

Death Year

1967 1

Nationality

Polish 1

Notable For

Coining the term vitamin in 1912 1

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Developed By

Micronutrient

Source Encyclopedia Britannica

In Branch

Nutrition Science

Source Encyclopedia Britannica

Sources

1. Encyclopedia Britannica

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