Randolph West

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Randolph West (born August 7, 1890 in Princeton , † May 20, 1949 ) was an American hematologist .

Life

After completing his medical degree at Columbia University , he returned to the Presbyterian Hospital in New York as an assistant doctor after his military service and remained connected to Columbia University as an academic teacher and scientist. Together with the chemist Henry Drysdale Dakin , he described the Dakin-West reaction in 1928 . His scientific interest continued to focus on anemia, and in particular pernicious anemia . The discovery of vitamin B12 should later emerge from a cooperation with the biochemist Karl August Folkers employed by the pharmaceutical company Merck .

West died suddenly and unexpectedly of a heart condition. Posthumously he received the first "Joseph Goldberger Award" from the American Nutrition Foundation .

literature

  • Hanger: Randolph West, 1890-1949. Trans Assoc Am Physicians. 1950; 63: 19-20. PMID 14855549

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dakin & West: A general reaction of amino acids. J Biol Chem 1928; 78: 91-104. Full text
  2. ↑ Olson: Karl August Folkers (1906-1997). J Nutr. 2001 Sep; 131 (9): 2227-30. PMID 11533258
  3. ↑ Joseph Goldberger Award in Nutrion. JAMA. 1949; 139 (7): 459-460. doi : 10.1001 / jama.1949.02900240037011 .
personal data
SURNAME West, Randolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American biochemist
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Princeton
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1949