Casimir Funk made a career in science at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Casimir Funk as Polish-American biochemist.
Casimir Funk was born at Warsaw in 1884. His recorded nationality is Poland.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, national institutions, mass media and mass politics changed both the scale of a career and its risks.
Casimir Funk is described as biochemist, chemist and opinion journalist.
Results that survive re-examination become the floor of a discipline.
His recorded fields of work are biochemistry.
Working from Poland shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Death came in 1967, at 83. By then the contribution had passed into the settled record.
Achievements
- Worked as biochemist, chemist and opinion journalist
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