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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
1/2 of the prize
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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