Who is Casimir Funk, the 'father of vitamins' being honoured by the Google Doodle?
Polish-American biochemist Casimir Funk, born 140 years ago on Friday and "among the first to discover and introduce the concept of vitamins," has been honoured by Google’s homepage doodle. Funk earned a PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Bern in Switzerland aged just 20, after growing up in Warsaw, Poland. The biochemist was studying the effects of food ingredients on illnesses like scurvy, a condition caused by severe vitamin C deficiency, when he developed the idea for vitamins in 1911. Who is Dr Victor Chang, the famous Australian heart surgeon honoured by the Google Doodle?Wh...