Chapter ID: CBB000083290

Vitamins and the dynamics of molecularization: Biochemistry, policy and industry in Britain, 1914-1939 (1998)

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Description “I shall discuss the support of the Medical Research Council for vitamin research in interwar Britain, and tensions which arose between the secretary of the Medical Research Council, Walter Morley Fletcher, and the biochemist whom Fletcher expected to take a leading role in investigating the metabolic functions of vitamins, Frederick Gowland Hopkins.”


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Authors & Contributors
Weatherall, Mark W.
Kamminga, Harmke
Austoker, Joan
Webster, Charles
Squier, Susan M.
Soffer, Reba N.
Journals
Society for the Social History of Medicine Bulletin
Medical History
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Victorian Studies
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
Transactions - Newcomen Society for the Study of the History of Engineering and Technology
Publishers
Oxford University Press
Blackwell
Taylor & Francis
Concepts
Biochemistry
Science
Cancer; tumors
Catalysis
Professional qualifications; status; remuneration
Vitamins
People
Hopkins, Frederick Gowland
Fletcher, Walter Morley
Mitchison, Naomi Haldane
Hudson, William Henry
Weldon, Walter Frank Raphael
Soddy, Frederick
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
Places
British Isles
Great Britain
Institutions
Dunn Institute of Biochemistry
Royal Society of London
Imperial Chemical Industries
National Health Service (Great Britain)
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