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Doisy
[ doi-zee ]
noun
- Edward Ad·el·bert [ad, -l-bert, uh, -, del, -], 1893–1986, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1943.
Doisy
/ ˈdɔɪzɪ /
noun
- DoisyEdward Adelbert18931986MUSSCIENCE: chemist Edward Adelbert. 1893–1986, US biochemist. He discovered (1939) the nature of vitamin K and shared a Nobel prize for medicine with Carl Dam (1943)
Example Sentences
“Choose foods from at least two different food groups — such as fruit and grains or vegetables and dairy — when putting together a snack,” says Whitney Linsenmeyer, assistant professor of nutrition and dietetics at St. Louis University’s Doisy College of Health Sciences.
Last August Professor Edward Adelbert Doisy of St. Louis University and his co-workers C. D. Veler and S. Thayer similarly reported their crystallization of the female sex hormone.
Biochemists, however, will give the Doisy group the first acclaim because they published their work first.
Thirteen years ago Dr. Edward Adelbert Doisy of St. Louis obtained thousands of gallons of urine from pregnant women in lying-in hospitals.
Dr. Adolf Butenandt of Gottingen crystallized the female sex hormone theelin a few months after Dr. Edward Adelbert Doisy of St. Louis had done so, thereby losing the scientific glory of priority.
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