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Name: Carl Peter Henrik Dam
Birth Date: February 21, 1895
Death Date: April 17, 1976
Place of Birth: Copenhagen, Denmark
Nationality: Danish
Gender: Male
Occupations: biochemist

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Biography of Henrik Dam
880 words, approx. 3 pages
Henrik Dam is best known for his discovery of vitamin K, which gives blood the ability to clot, or coagulate. The discovery of vitamin K dramatically reduced the number of deaths by bleeding during surgery, and for the discovery Dam received the 1943...
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Biography of Carl Peter Henrik Dam
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The Danish biochemist Carl Peter Henrik Dam (1895-1976) shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for his discovery of vitamin K. Henrik Dam, the son of Emil Dam, an apothecary, was born in Copenhagen on Feb. 21, 1895. He graduated in chemistry at...


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Henrik Dam (Full name Carl Peter Henrik Dam) (February 21, 1895 – April 17, 1976) was a Danish biochemist and physiologist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1943 for his work in discovering vitamin K and its role in human physiology....


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The World Today
Dams It Is!
06/01/2008: 2,126 words, approx. 7 pages
Governments in Southeast Asia are hoping to increase revenue and improve energy security by building dozens of large electricity-generating dams along the Mekong River. However, the dams will mean fewer fish and smaller harvests for sixty million people whose livelihoods are bound up with...
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The Economist (US)
The Dammed.
11/14/1992: 508 words, approx. 2 pages
THE most pressing physical limit to growth in many countries is not land or energy; it is water. These two excellent books describe how people have tried to organize the world's water in ways that allow countries to develop, and how their efforts...
 


 

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