On This Day - Nov 13 : Edward Doisy was born

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He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1943 for the isolation and synthesis of vitamin K, which encourages blood clotting and has several applications in medicine. Doisy also developed techniques that helped other scientists’ research sex hormones.

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