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 | | Danish biochemist Henrik Dam, born on this date in 1895, is noted for discovering vitamin K. While studying chicks whose blood clotted slower than normal, Dam thought the chicks were deficient in vitamin C, but the addition of vitamin C did not prevent the chicks from hemorrhaging. |
 | | Additional research showed that certain foods, such as vegetables and liver, that allowed the blood to clot properly contained vitamin K. By introducing vitamin K to vitamin-deficient newborns, Dam and others helped save many lives. |
 | | The Nobel Prize committee, in honoring Dam in 1943, noted, "it is
in the checking of hemorrhages in newborn babies that this vitamin has assumed its greatest practical importance." |
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