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vitamin. American biochemist Casimir Funk coined the word vitamin (or, rather, vitamine) in 1912, at which time he was credited with the discovery of the existence of vitamins, or- ganic substances necessary for normal health. Funk construct- ed the word from the Latin vita, “life,” and amine, from the Greek ammoniakon, because he believed that an amino acid was present in vitamins. Vitamine was stripped of its e when it was found that amino acids were not involved. |