Doisy

American

[doi-zee] / ˈdɔɪ zi /

noun

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

Doisy British

/ ˈdɔɪzɪ /

noun

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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Dr. Adolf Butenandt of Gottingen crystallized the female sex hormone theelin a few months after Dr. Edward Adelbert Doisy of St. Louis had done so, thereby losing the scientific glory of priority.

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Last August Professor Edward Adelbert Doisy of St. Louis University and his co-workers C. D. Veler and S. Thayer similarly reported their crystallization of the female sex hormone.

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

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

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Doisy gave credit, for he reckoned on the sisters and aunts of the pupils, who made it a point of honor to pay their debts.

From The Lily of the Valley by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

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