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

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

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

During a recess, which preceded the hour when the man-of-all-work took us to the Charlemagne Lyceum, the well-to-do pupils used to breakfast with the porter, named Doisy.

From The Lily of the Valley by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott