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Vitamine or Vitamin: The Accidental discovery of Vitamin

 



Vitamine vs Vitamin


History 

1910- Japanese scientist Umetaro Suzuki discovered a new nutrients(Vitamin B1) and named it Aberic acid

1912- nutrient(Vitamin B1) was rediscovered by Casimir Funk(Polish Biochemist). He coined the term Vitamine for discovered nutrient. 

Coined Vitamine= Vital + Amine(having nitrogen atom) 

Frederick Gowland Hopkins later made experiment

Protein+ Carbohydrate+ Fat+ Salt → No growth in Rat

Protein+ Carbohydrate+ Fat+ Salt+ Milk → Growth in Rat

He suggested- there are some accessory factors(Vitamine) in milk that are resulting in growth of Rat. And this accessory factors is not regular Amines. 

1920- Jack Cecil Drummond proposed that not all vitamines have an amine component. So he asked to change the name from Vitamine to Vitamin. 

Vitamine→Vitamin

1929- Frederick Gowland Hopkins got noble prize for discovery of Vitamin. 




Facts(Name, Function, Associate Disease)

Vitamin plays many important role in human body. The most important one is metabolism. 

Vitamin B, C- Water soluble, all other vitamins are fat soluble

Vitamin D- Abundantly synthesize in human body by exposure to sun rays(UV-B rays) 







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