About
University of Wisconsin–Madison biochemist who discovered what became Vitamin D. He also developed the cure for rickets.
Before Fame
He found that irradiating most organic foods with ultraviolet light increased in them the concentration of Vitamin D.
Trivia
He was offered as much as one million dollars for the rights to the vitamin D discovery, and decided instead of enriching himself to give the money to the University.
Family Life
He married late in life and his wife was a lab assistant of his.
Associated With
A few decades before him the Dutch scientist Christiaan Elijkman discovered vitamins exist in foods.
