"for his discovery of vitamin K."
(CARL PETER) HENRIK DAM WAS BORN IN COPENHAGEN, ON February 21, 1895. He was graduated in chemistry from the Polytechnic Institute there in 1920, and was awarded the degree Sc. Dr. in biochemistry by the University of Copenhagen in 1934. Meanwhile he had studied microchemistry with F. Pregl in Graz, Austria, in 1925, and metabolism of sterols in Rudolph Schoenheimer's laboratory in Freiburg, Germany, as a Rockefeller Fellow, in 1932- 1933. He also worked with P. Karrer, in Zurich, in 1935 and later. Dam was appointed instructor in chemistry at the School of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine in Copenhagen in 1920; instructor in biochemistry at the Physiological Laboratory, University of Copenhagen, in 1923; and assistant professor at the Institute of Biochemistry of the same institution in 1928. He served as associate professor at the University from 1929 to 1941, and lectured in the United States and Canada in 1940-1941. This tour was planned before Denmark was occupied by German troops (April 1940). Dr. Dam carried out research in Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratories in 1941; at the University of Rochester, New York, 1942-1945, as a senior research associate; and at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, 1945, as an associate member. Despite his absence from Denmark he had meanwhile been appointed professor of biochemistry at the Polytechnic Institute, Copenhagen. His many papers, some published jointly and others alone, deal mainly with the biochemistry of sterols, fats, and the vitamins K and E.
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