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Casimir Funk

1884 - 1967

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Casimir Funk (Polish: [kaˈʑimjɛʂ ˈfuŋk] Kazimierz Funk; February 23, 1884 – November 19, 1967) was a Polish biochemist generally credited with being among the first to formulate the concept of vitamins after publishing a landmark medical writing in 1912. He highlighted these "vital amines" (or "vitamines") as critical in fighting significant diseases such as pellagra and rickets, and his analysis influenced a major shift in scientific thinking. His scientific work involved research in Poland, France and the United Kingdom. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Casimir Funk has received more than 1,843,953 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). Casimir Funk is the 118th most popular chemist (down from 62nd in 2019), the 146th most popular biography from Poland (down from 104th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Polish Chemist.

Casimir Funk was a Polish biochemist who first coined the term "vitamine" in 1912.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Casimir Funk ranks 118 out of 509. Before him are James Dewar, Stanford Moore, Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier, Leopold Ružička, Avram Hershko, and John Macleod. After him are Richard R. Ernst, William Howard Stein, Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Lars Onsager, Georg Ernst Stahl, and Johan Gadolin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Casimir Funk ranks 30. Before him are Edward Sapir, Rajendra Prasad, Vincent Auriol, Rudolf Bultmann, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, and Emil Jannings. After him are Max Beckmann, Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland, Panait Istrati, Otto Rank, and Mammad Amin Rasulzadeh. Among people deceased in 1967, Casimir Funk ranks 26. Before him are John Coltrane, Rodion Malinovsky, Richard Kuhn, Françoise Dorléac, Wolfgang Köhler, and Hermann Joseph Muller. After him are Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Jayne Mansfield, Otis Redding, Ossip Zadkine, Norman Angell, and Ejnar Hertzsprung.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Casimir Funk ranks 146 out of 1,454. Before him are Antoni Grabowski (1857), Samuel Reshevsky (1911), Isabella Jagiellon (1519), Maxim Litvinov (1876), Władysław Gomułka (1905), and Erich Mendelsohn (1887). After him are Daniel Libeskind (1946), Klaus von Klitzing (1943), Johann Gustav Droysen (1808), Alexandre Colonna-Walewski (1810), Georg Michaelis (1857), and Udo Lattek (1935).

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Among CHEMISTS In Poland

Among chemists born in Poland, Casimir Funk ranks 9. Before him are Kurt Alder (1902), Friedrich Bergius (1884), Tadeusz Reichstein (1897), Konrad Emil Bloch (1912), Clara Immerwahr (1870), and Antoni Grabowski (1857). After him are Johann Wilhelm Ritter (1776), Ignacy Mościcki (1867), Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822), Sendivogius (1566), Fritz London (1900), and Richard Abegg (1869).

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