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Casimir Funk

1884 - 1967

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Casimir Funk (Polish: Kazimierz Funk [kaˈʑimjɛʂ ˈfuŋk]; 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 1,927,580 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Casimir Funk is the 29th most popular chemist (up from 118th in 2019), the 45th most popular biography from Poland (up from 146th in 2019) and the 2nd 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 29 out of 602. Before him are Emil Fischer, Eduard Buchner, Albert Hofmann, Otto Wallach, Humphry Davy, and Justus von Liebig. After him are John Howard Northrop, Ilya Prigogine, Walther Nernst, Robert Bunsen, Henrik Dam, and Tu Youyou.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Casimir Funk ranks 9. Before him are Amedeo Modigliani, Isoroku Yamamoto, Edvard Beneš, İsmet İnönü, Hideki Tojo, and Bronisław Malinowski. After him are Édouard Daladier, Anton Drexler, Max Brod, Theodor Heuss, Franz Halder, and Peter Debye. Among people deceased in 1967, Casimir Funk ranks 7. Before him are Che Guevara, J. Robert Oppenheimer, René Magritte, Konrad Adenauer, Vivien Leigh, and Puyi. After him are Vladimir Komarov, Mohammad Mosaddegh, Clement Attlee, Ilse Koch, Spencer Tracy, and Zoltán Kodály.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Casimir Funk ranks 45 out of 1,694. Before him are Christian Wolff (1679), Vladislaus II of Hungary (1456), Irena Sendler (1910), Otto Stern (1888), Bronisław Malinowski (1884), and Arthur Rubinstein (1887). After him are Rudolf Clausius (1822), Rudolf Virchow (1821), Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768), Krzysztof Kieślowski (1941), Casimir III the Great (1310), and Gerhart Hauptmann (1862).

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Among CHEMISTS In Poland

Among chemists born in Poland, Casimir Funk ranks 2. Before him are Fritz Haber (1868). After him are Walther Nernst (1864), Kurt Alder (1902), Friedrich Bergius (1884), Tadeusz Reichstein (1897), Konrad Emil Bloch (1912), Clara Immerwahr (1870), Ignacy Mościcki (1867), Johann Wilhelm Ritter (1776), Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822), and Antoni Grabowski (1857).

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