Lafayette Mendel
Lafayette Mendel · Science & Medicine
Nutritional biochemist who co-discovered vitamin A and helped found the science of nutrition.
1872, Delhi, New York, United States — 1935, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
United States
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Lafayette Mendel was a biochemist who, with Thomas Osborne, co-discovered vitamin A and clarified the essential amino acids, helping found the modern science of nutrition. He was born into a Jewish family in Delhi, New York, and spent his career at Yale.
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Nutritional biochemist who co-discovered vitamin A and helped found the science of nutrition.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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