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	Casimir Funk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kazimierz Funk (February 23, 1884 - January 19, 1967), commonly anglicized as Casimir Funk, was a Polish biochemist, generally credited with the first formulation of the concept of Vitamins in 1912, which he called vital amines or vitamines.
		Born in 1884 in Warsaw, the son of a prominent dermatologist, he studied in Berlin and Switzerland, where he gained his doctorate in organic chemistry at the university of Bern in 1904.
		Funk also conducted research into hormones, diabetes, ulcers, and the biochemistry of cancer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Casimir_Funk (400 words)

	Funk, Casimir
		Funk emigrated to the United States in 1915 and held several industrial and university positions in New York.
		Funk moved to Paris in 1927 and became a consultant to a pharmaceutical company and founded Casa Biochemica, a privately funded research institution.
		In his later research, Funk studied animal hormones and contributed to the knowledge about hormones of the pituitary and sex glands, emphasizing the importance of balance between hormones and vitamins.
	www.faqs.org /nutrition/Biographies/Funk-Casimir.html (463 words)

	Funk, Casimir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Funk proposed that certain diseases are caused by dietary deficiencies.
		Funk, born in Warsaw, studied in Berne, Switzerland, and worked at research institutes in Europe before emigrating to the USA 1915.
		Funk failed to find the factor that prevents beriberi in human beings - thiamin, or vitamin B1 - but once it had been isolated by Robert Williams (1886-1965), Funk determined its molecular structure 1936 and developed a method of synthesizing it.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/F/Funk/1.html (236 words)

	Casimir Funk Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		The discoverer of vitamins, Polish American biochemist Casimir Funk (1884-1967) found that vitamins B1, B2, C, and D were necessary to human health and that vitamins contributed to the normal functioning of the hormonal system.
		At the time of Funk's study, it was not known that beriberi is caused by a lack of B1, but only that the disease occurred in areas of the Orient where the population consumed polished rice.
		Funk decided that there was a substance in the rice polish and the yeast that was required in small amounts to maintain health.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/casimir-funk (1667 words)

	Casimir Funk Biography \| World of Biology
		Casimir was born in Warsaw on February 23, 1884, the son of a well-known dermatologist.
		Funk returned to Warsaw in 1923 under the sponsorship of the Rockefeller Foundation to assume the role of Director of the Biochemistry Department of the State Institute of Hygiene.
		Funk postulated (wrongly it was later proved) that all deficiency diseases could be cured by amines for which he coined the term vitamine.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/casimir-funk-wob (441 words)

	Casimir Funk Biography \| World of Health
		Funk was born in Warsaw, Poland, the son of a renowned dermatologist.
		Funk discovered in 1911 that the bran, the partly ground husk of the rice grain that was usually thrown out in Far Eastern cultures, contained a vital substance called thiamine that prevents beriberi.
		Funk left the Lister Institute later in 1913 to become head of the Biochemistry Department at the Cancer Hospital Research Institute in London.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/casimir-funk-woh (608 words)

	Funk, Casimir. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		He first came to the United States in 1915 and was naturalized in 1920.
		Credited with the discovery of vitamins, Funk stirred public interest with his paper (1912) on vitamin-deficiency diseases.
		Funk contributed to knowledge of the hormones of the pituitary gland and the sex glands and emphasized the importance of the balance between hormones and vitamins.
	www.bartleby.com /65/fu/Funk-Cas.html (144 words)

	TIME.com: Death of the Vitamin Pioneer -- Dec. 1, 1967 -- Page 1
		From this discovery, Funk correctly theorized that chemical substances which he named vitamines (from the Latin vita for life and amine for chemical compounds containing nitrogen) were capable of preventing deficiency diseases such as scurvy, pellagra and rickets, and indeed were essential to the sustenance of healthy life.
		Returning to the U.S. at the start of World War II, Funk continued his cancer research, later theorized that oncotine and oncostimuline affect the growth of tumors, and postulated that an imbalance of the two might cause the disease.
		Funk believed it was preferable for a person to obtain his daily requirement of vitamins from natural foodstuffs.
	www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,712020,00.html (602 words)

	Vitamine—vitamin. The early years of discovery -- Rosenfeld 43 (4): 680 -- Clinical Chemistry
		Funk C. On the chemical nature of the substance which cures polyneuritis in birds induced by a diet of polished rice.
		Drummond JC, Funk C. The chemical investigation of the phosphotungstate precipitate from rice-polishings.
		Funk C. The etiology of the deficiency diseases.
	www.clinchem.org /cgi/content/full/43/4/680 (2685 words)

	funk - definition by dict.die.net
		To funk at; to flinch at; to shrink from (a thing or person); as, to funk a task.
		To be frightened, and shrink back; to flinch; as, to funk at the edge of a precipice.
		To funk out, to back out in a cowardly fashion.
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	AllRefer.com - Casimir Funk (Medicine, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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		Casimir Funk[kaz´imEr foongk] Pronunciation Key, 1884–1967, American biochemist, b.
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		Funk believed the substance belonged to a group of chemicals known as amines [uh-MEENS].
		Funk was not able to separate the anti-berberi substance from the rice hulls; it turned out to be thiamine.
		But Funk was correct in recognizing the importance.
	www.help-for-you.com /news/May2003/scripts/29198c60.html (1235 words)

	Thiamin (Vitamin B₁)
		In 1911, the chemist Casimir Funk isolated a substance from rice bran extracts which he thought was the anti-beriberi factor.
		As it turned out, Funk's vitamine was not the anti-beriberi factor which was subsequently isolated and called thiamin or vitamin B
		Nevertheless, Funk did coin the term vitamin and the concept that vitamins are essential dietary factors.
	www.pdrhealth.com /drug_info/nmdrugprofiles/nutsupdrugs/thi_0261.shtml (3705 words)

	Waclaw Szybalski - The Casimir Funk Natural Science Award 2003
		The annual awards presentations, inaugurated in 1995 held in Williams Club at the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in New York City, honor distinguished scholars and scientists for their scholarly achievements with a $1000 award.
		The Natural Sciences Award of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences is named in honor of Casimir Funk, the discoverer of vitamins.
		It is with great pleasure that I present to Dr Waclaw Szybalski on behalf of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences the Casimir Funk Natural Sciences Award.
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	Funk Casimir - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Funk Casimir - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Funk, Casimir (1884-1967), Polish-born American biochemist, born in Warsaw, which was then part of the Russian Empire.
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	Food for Thought: How Vitamins Are Important to Health (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Funk was not able to separate the anti-berberi substance from the rice hulls; it was later shown to be thiamine.
		But Funk was correct in recognizing their importance.
		They are known as vitamins A, the B group, C, D, E and K. Scientists say vitamins help to carry out chemical changes within cells.
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	Vitamins definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Vitamins: The word "vitamin" was coined in 1911 by the Warsaw-born biochemist Casimir Funk (1884-1967).
		At the Lister Institute in London, Funk isolated a substance that prevented nerve inflammation (neuritis) in chickens raised on a diet deficient in that substance.
		He named the substance "vitamine" because he believed it was necessary to life and it was a chemical amine.
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	Funk, Casimir - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		FUNK, CASIMIR [Funk, Casimir], 1884-1967, American biochemist, b.
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	funk - Definitions from Dictionary.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		a dejected mood: He's been in a funk ever since she walked out on him.
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	annualawards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The awards are given in the fields of history (The Oskar Halecki Polish and East Central European History Award), sociology (The Bronislaw Malinowski Social Science Award), natural science (The Casimir Funk Natural Science Award), applied sciences (The Tadeusz Sendzimir Applied Sciences Award), humanities (The Waclaw Lednicki Award).
		Karen Majewski, Executive Director of the Polish American Historical Association (PAHA) and Curator for Orchard Lake Schools, Orchard Lake, Michigan, recipient of the “Waclaw Lednicki Humanities Award” for her book Traitors and True Poles: Narrating a Polish-American Identity, 1880-1939 Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2003.
		Benoit Mandelbrot, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Sciences, Yale University, recipient of the “Casimir Funk Natural Science Award” in recognition of his introduction of the concept of fractals into fields of physics that defied description by conventional concepts and for his impact on these fields.
	www.piasa.org /annualawards.html (469 words)

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	Jewish History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		While studying a deficiency disease known as beriberi at the Lister Institute in London, Funk found a substance which prevented the disease, and called it a "vitamine." Though it was actually vitamin B, the name was later used to refer to all the vitamin groups.
		He later also discovered that pellagra, a skin disease found in impoverished areas of the U.S., was caused by a vitamin deficiency, establishing a link between malnutrition and disease.
		Levi was a detached but passionate writer who constantly warned that only alertness can prevent a repeat of the Holocaust.
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