Carl Peter Henrik Dam was a Danish biochemist and physiologist who discovered vitamin K and its role in blood coagulation. Feeding chickens a cholesterol-free diet, he found that the resulting bleeding defects could not be corrected by adding purified cholesterol alone, indicating the existence of a separate, previously unidentified coagulation vitamin, which he named vitamin K. He shared the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edward Doisy, who determined the vitamin chemical structure. Dam lived from 1895 to 1976.
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Carl Peter Henrik Dam (21 February 1895 – 17 April 1976) was a Danish biochemist and physiologist.
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Carl Peter Henrik Dam (21 February 1895 - 17 April 1976) was a Danish biochemist and physiologist.
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He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1943 for joint work with Edward Doisy in discovering vitamin K.
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P20 (place of death): Copenhagen, Denmark
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