Elmer McCollum
americký biochemik
Elmer Verner McCollum (* 3. marec 1879, Fort Scott, Kansas, USA – † 15. november 1967, Baltimore, Maryland, USA) bol americký biochemik.
Elmer McCollum | |
Narodenie | 3. marec 1879 Fort Scott, Kansas, USA |
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Úmrtie | 15. november 1967 (88 rokov) Baltimore, Maryland, USA |
Alma mater | Yale University |
Profesia | biochemik |
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Commons | Elmer McCollum |
McCollum študoval na University of Kansas. Promoval na Yale University, potom pracoval na University of Wisconsin. Od roku 1917 bol profesorom na Johns Hopkins University.
Objavil mnohé vitamíny, v roku 1897 spolu s Marguerite Davis vitamín B1. Retinol objavil v roku 1913 tiež spolu s Marguerite Davis.
V roku 1916 zaviedol označovanie vitamínov s veľkými písmenami abecedy.
Publikácie
upraviť- E. V. McCollum und M. Davis: The necessity of certain lipins in the diet during growth. In: Journal of Biological Chemistry. Band 15, 1913, S. 167–175.
- E. V. McCollum und C. Kennedy: The dietary factors operating in the production of polyneuritis. In: Journal of Biological Chemistry. Band 24, 1916, S. 491–502.
- E. V. McCollum, N. Simmonds, J. E. Becker und P. G. Shipley: Studies on experimental rickets. XXI. An experimental demonstration of the existence of a vitamin which promotes calcium deposition. Journal of Biological Chemistry. Band 53, 1922, S. 293–312.
- A History of Nutrition: The Sequence of Ideas in Nutrition Investigations. Houghton Mifflin, Boston 1957.
- From Kansas Farm Boy to Scientist. University of Kansas Press, Lawrence 1964.
Literatúra
upraviť- Donald R. Davis: Some Legacies of Nutrition Pioneer E. V. McCollum. In: Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. Band 82(3), 1979, S. 133–145.
- Alfred Sommer: New Imperatives for an Old Vitamin (A) : VII. E. V. McCollum International Lectureship in Nutrition. In: Journal of Nutrition. Band 119 No. 1 January 1989, S. 96–100.
- Rosenfeld, Louis: Vitamine – vitamin. The early years of discovery. In: Clinical Chemistry. Band 43 No. 4, 1997, S. 680–685.
- George Wolf: The discovery of the visual function of vitamin A. In: Journal of Nutrition. Band 131, 2001, S. 1647–1650.
- Robert D. Simoni, Robert L. Hill und Martha Vaughan: Nutritional Biochemistry and the Discovery of Vitamins: the Work of Elmer Verner McCollum. In: The journal of biological chemistry. Band 277, Nr. 19, 8, 10. Mai. 2002.