Talk:Elmer McCollum

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A fact from Elmer McCollum appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 24 July 2016 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Elmer McCollum (pictured) and Marguerite Davis discovered vitamin A three weeks before Osborne and Mendel?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2016/July. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Elmer McCollum.

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Discovery of vitamin B?

Should the discovery of vitamin B (and also D) really be credited to McCollum? There's no trace about this in the official biography. ^[1] He (and Davis) did some groundbreaking work, but this article goes a bit overboard in this respect. Please help to clarify. -- Buckiboy (talk) 05:45, 20 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I agree that Day's biography might be a little over the top. According to this article by Kenneth Carpenter, yes, McCollum should be credited for A, B, and D. Unfortunately Carpenter omits Davis, who was a student at the time yet often receives credit. Hope this helps. -SusanLesch (talk) 02:56, 11 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Woops. Carpenter does give Davis credit here. -SusanLesch (talk) 03:02, 11 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

^ http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/mccollum-elmer.pdf

Archive of cuts

Hello. I cut a few refs that were all citing the first sentence. Maybe you will want to use them. -SusanLesch (talk) 01:47, 19 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Re-use refs

Consider using the "ref name=" approach, there are dozens of refs that can be reused here which would trim the Refs section considerably. The Rambling Man (talk) 07:29, 23 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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[1] ttp://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/mccollum-elmer.pdf

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