Human Accomplishment: Edward Mellanby

a British biochemist and nutritionist who discovered vitamin D and its role in preventing rickets in 1919.

Born

8 April 1884 West Hartlepool

Died

30 January 1955 (aged 70)

Alma mater

Emmanuel College, Cambridge

Awards

FRS (1925) Bisset Hawkins Medal (1929) Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh (1932) Royal Medal (1932) Buchanan Medal (1947)

Institutions

University of Sheffield University of Cambridge

Spouse(s)

May Tweedy (married 1914)

adultbasic

Britain

Citizenship

British

era

1800+