Nobel Laureates and Their Work with Vitamins

 

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Discovery of Vitamins  
Christiaan Eijkman (1929) Vitamin B1
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1929) Growth Stimulating Vitamins
George Hoyt Whipple (1934)* Vitamin B12
George Richards Minot (1934)* Vitamin B12
William Parry Murphy (1934)* Vitamin B12
Henrik Carl Peter Dam (1943) Vitamin K
   
Isolation of Vitamins  
Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus (1928)* Vitamin D
Albert von Szent-Györgyi Nagyrapolt (1937) Vitamin C
Richard Kuhn (1938) Vitamin B2 and B6
Edward Adelbert Doisy (1943) Vitamin K
   
   

Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Synthesis of Vitamins  
Walter Norman Haworth (1937) Vitamin C
Paul Karrer (1937) Vitamin E
Robert Burns Woodward (1965)* Vitamin B12
   
Structure of Vitamins  
Paul Karrer (1937) Vitamin A and B
Richard Kuhn (1938) Vitamin B2
Lord (Alexander R.) Todd (1957)* Vitamin B12
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1964)* Vitamin B12
   

* The Nobel Laureate has worked and contributed in this area, but was awarded for another achievement. See Prize Motivation.