An account of the ideas and the experiments that led to the discovery of vitamin A.
Keywords: vitamin A; carotene; diet; cod liver oil
Discovery of Vitamin A
George Wolf, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0003419
| Further Reading | |
| book Guggenheim KY (1981) "The emergence of newer concepts in nutrition". In: Nutrition and Nutritional Diseases. The Evolution of Concepts, pp. 111–183. Lexington, MA: Collamore Press/D.C. Heath. | |
| book Guggenheim KY (1981) "Night blindness and xerophthalmia". In: Nutrition and Nutritional Diseases. The Evolution of Concepts, pp. 111–183. Lexington, MA: Collamore Press/D.C. Heath. | |
| book McCollum EV (1964) "My first six years investigating nutrition". In: From Kansas Farm Boy to Scientist, pp. 112–140. Lawrence, KS. University of Kansas Press. | |
| book Moore T (1957) "Historical introduction". In: Vitamin A, pp. 3–22. New York: Elsevier Publishing. | |
| Olson JA (1997) The conversion of carotene to vitamin A (Thomas Moore, 1930). Journal of Nutrition 127: 1036S–1038S. | |
| Wolf G (1996) A history of vitamin A and retinoids. FASEB Journal 10: 1102–1107. | |
| Wolf G (1998) M. Mori's Definitive recognition of vitmain A deficiency and its cure in children. Nutrition 14: 481–484. | |
