Translations:B vitamins/17/en
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Discovery
| 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). | ||