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The status of vitamin and carotenoid research in the first two decades of the 20th Century is outlined and the activities of Katharine Hope Coward in applying chromatography are discussed. Coward can be considered as the fifth person utilizing chromatography in the dormant period between Tswett’s fundamental work, in 1906–1911, and the resurrection of the technique in the early 1930s.
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Acknowledgments.
Professors Charles W. Gehrke and Robert L. Wixom of the University of Missouri (Columbia, MO, USA) advised us about early nutrition research and the activities at the University of Wisconsin; Mrs. Debra Kaufman, head librarian of the Life & Analytical Science Division of PerkinElmer Inc. (Shelton, CT USA) assisted us in the search for early publications; and Ms. Briony Hudson at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (London, U.K.) provided the copies of the Pharmaceutical Journal entries dealing with Dr. Coward [6- 8]. Their cooperation and help is greatly acknowledged. We would also like to express our gratitude to Dr. E.R. Adlard, for his interest in this project, and to the editors of the Pharmaceutical Journal, for permission to reproduce the photograph of Dr. Coward.
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Ettre, L., Morris, P. Katharine Hope Coward: A Pioneering User of Chromatography. Chromatographia 60, 613–617 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1365/s10337-004-0424-4
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