Funk

Funk Kazimir (born in 1884), a well-known biochemist, who began his scientific career at the London Research Institute for Tumors and then at New York University. After the publication of works by Eijkman on the importance in nutrition of certain supplementary substances, F. significantly expanded research in this area, firmly establishing the presence of these substances, which he called "vitamins," in a number of foodstuffs. The works of F. are responsible for the rapid development of the doctrine of vitamins (see), the study of their chemical structure, and the elucidation of the nature of certain diseases and "avitaminoses." In recent years, F. has been engaged in developing problems of endocrine regulation of certain aspects of metabolism. In addition to numerous individual works devoted to vitamins, his work "Vitamins" is widely known, translated into many languages and published in two Russian editions (1922 and 1928).