1886-1967
Vitamin Researcher

Background.

Sunlight Increases Vitamin D.

Other Nutritional Studies.

Steenbock's Contribution Overlooked.

There were many noteworthy scientists conducting research into nutrition and vitamins, namely Christiaan Eijkman, Frederick Gowland Hopkins, McCollum, Alfred Hess, and Adolf Windaus. In 1928 Windaus was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry, but The Scientific Monthly (April 1929) devoted an article to the reasons that other deserving scientists were ignored. The article stated that Hess and Steenbock were specifically deserving of recognition for the discovery that vitamin D could be activated through exposure to ultraviolet light.

Source:

Herbert Bailey, The Vitamin Pioneers, (Emmaus, Pa.: Rodale Books, 1968).