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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1943

"for his discovery of vitamin K"
"for his discovery of the chemical nature of vitamin K"
Henrik Carl Peter Dam Edward Adelbert Doisy
Henrik Carl Peter Dam Edward Adelbert Doisy
half 1/2 of the prize half 1/2 of the prize
Denmark USA
Polytechnic Institute
Copenhagen, Denmark		 Saint Louis University
St. Louis, MO, USA
b. 1895
d. 1976		 b. 1893
d. 1986
 
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