Doisy

American  

[doi-zee] / ˈdɔɪ zi /

noun

1. Edward Adelbert 1893–1986, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1943.

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Doisy British  

/ ˈdɔɪzɪ /

noun

1. Edward Adelbert. 1893–1986, US biochemist. He discovered (1939) the nature of vitamin K and shared a Nobel prize for medicine with Carl Dam (1943)

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Example Sentences

“Choose foods from at least two different food groups — such as fruit and grains or vegetables and dairy — when putting together a snack,” says Whitney Linsenmeyer, assistant professor of nutrition and dietetics at St. Louis University’s Doisy College of Health Sciences.

From Washington Post

Biochemists, however, will give the Doisy group the first acclaim because they published their work first.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thirteen years ago Dr. Edward Adelbert Doisy of St. Louis obtained thousands of gallons of urine from pregnant women in lying-in hospitals.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Cambr�sis they pillage the abbeys of Vauchelles, of Verger, and of Guillemans, the ch�teau of the Marquis de Besselard, the estate of M. Doisy, two farms, the wagons of wheat passing along the road to Saint-Quentin, and, besides this, seven farms in Picardy.

From Project Gutenberg

Monsieur Lepitre was either ignorant of the fact or he connived at this arrangement with Doisy, a regular smuggler whom it was the pupils' interest to protect,—he being the secret guardian of their pranks, the safe confidant of their late returns and their intermediary for obtaining forbidden books.

From Project Gutenberg