Word: steenbock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they have believed that it must be a vitamin. For half a century this something has been famous as "vitamin D." Virtually all U.S. milk and much bread and breakfast cereals are fortified with it by a process developed at the University of Wisconsin in 1924 by Biologist Harry Steenbock. He patented the technique and the royalties have enriched Steenbock's Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. Now a biochemist and Steenbock protégé at the same university, Dr. Hector DeLuca, says that the stuff is not a vitamin like the other simple, essential components in food...