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Scheunert, Arthur, 1879-

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Personal name headingScheunert, Arthur, 1879-
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Associated countryGermany
Birth date1879
Death date1957
Field of activityVitamins Education
Profession or occupationScientists College teachers
Found inSynthesis and decomposition of vitamins in the animal and vegetable organism, 1948: title page (Arthur Scheunert) [page 2] (Carl Arthur Scheunert, born 1879, graduated as Doctor of Philosophy 1902. 1920 he accepted an invitation to the Academy of Agriculture at Berlin as Professor of Animal Physiology and successor to N. Zuntz. There he worked on problems of nutrition and metabolism and did research in Vitamins. 1923 he was called to the University Leipzig, where he published the synthetic ability of intestinal bacteria and yeasts. In 1942 he became president of the newly created Public Institute (Reichsanstalt) for Vitamin-Research. 1945 he was transferred to the Justus Liebig School for Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine at Giessen.)
Medizinhistorisches Journal, Bd. 47, no. 4, 2012: page 296 (Carl Arthur Scheunert (1879-1957) was a German scientist who supervised several studies with prisoners that were designed to assess the optimal vitamin and nutrient supply, and were conducted by his associate Karl-Heinz Wagner (1911-2007) from 1938 to 1943)
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