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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12PK_vitamin-d-production-ends-rickets_Madison-WI.html
The discovery of how to produce vitamin D stands as a critical event in the history of vitamin research. In 1924, University of Wisconsin biochemist Harry Steenbock discovered that ultraviolet light converts an inactive material in food to vitamin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12PH_discovery-of-vitamins-a-and-b_Madison-WI.html
In 1913 University of Wisconsin biochemist Elmer V. McCollum and associates used rats to conduct nutritional studies that led to the discovery of vitamin A in butterfat and cod liver oil. In 1917 his group discovered vitamin B complex in milk whey…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12PB_eliminating-pellagra_Madison-WI.html
Pellagra once was a widespread and often fatal disease that was particularly common where corn was a dietary staple. In 1938, University of Wisconsin biochemists Conrad Elvehjem and Frank Strong isolated and identified the B vitamin, niacin, and d…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12OA_controlling-blood-clotting_Madison-WI.html
Through the misfortune of a Wisconsin farmer, biochemist Karl Paul Link and his University of Wisconsin associates were handed the keys to discovery of anticlotting factors. Farmer Ed Carlson in February 1933 brought to Link sweet clover hay that …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12NY_treatment-of-iron-deficiency-anemia_Madison-WI.html
Biochemists in the 1920s conducted studies leading to improved understanding of the roles of minerals in animal and human diets. University of Wisconsin biochemists E.B. Hart, C.A. Elvehjem, and Harry Steenbock discovered that copper, in addition …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12NL_schmidts-auto-inc_Madison-WI.html
Madison's oldest towing company, Schmidt's Auto, was founded in 1937 by Norbert and Viola Schmidt. Over the next 65 years, Norbert and his son, Lawrence, operated the business before Norbert's grandsons, Michael and John Schmidt, took over. In 200…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12NK_pioneering-bacterial-genetics_Madison-WI.html
Geneticist Joshua Lederberg was the first University of Wisconsin faculty member to receive the Nobel Prize. His discovery of conjugation in bacterial cells was a milestone in biology and ushered in the new field of bacterial genetics. Soon, the g…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12N6_first-chemical-synthesis-of-a-gene_Madison-WI.html
Biochemist Har Gobind Khorana shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1968 for research that was essential to understanding how DNA is translated into proteins. His work at the Institute for Enzyme Research completed the puzzle of whi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM120Y_larson-house_Madison-WI.html
The Larson House, attributed to the architectural firm of Claude and Starck, is significant as an exceptional local example of the Prairie Style. The Prairie Style is one of the few indigenous American styles, identifiable by its horizontal emphas…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11V5_king-street-arcade_Madison-WI.html
The King Street Arcade is an example of an arcaded block, a distinctive building type popular in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century. The exterior is characterized by a series of tall, evenly spaced, arched openings ac…