| Vitamin |
Name |
Discoverer |
Date |
Notes
|
| Vitamin B1
|
Thiamine |
Umetaro Suzuki |
1910 |
Failed to gain publicity.
|
| Casimir Funk |
1912 |
|
| Vitamin B2
|
Riboflavin |
D.T Smith and E.G Hendrick
|
1926 |
Max Tishler invented methods for synthesizing it.
|
| Vitamin B3
|
Niacin |
Conrad Elvehjem |
1937 |
|
| Vitamin B5
|
Pantothenic acid |
Roger J. Williams |
1933 |
|
| Vitamin B6
|
Pyridoxine etc. |
Paul Gyorgy |
1934 |
|
| Vitamin B7
|
Biotin |
Research by multiple independent groups in the early 1900s; credits for discovery include Margaret Averil Boas (1927), and Dean Burk.
|
| Vitamin B9
|
Folic acid |
Lucy Wills |
1933 |
|
| Vitamin B12
|
Cobalamins |
Five people have been awarded Nobel Prizes for direct and indirect studies of vitamin B12: George Whipple, George Minot and William Murphy (1934), Alexander R. Todd (1957), and Dorothy Hodgkin (1964).
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