Casimir Funk was a Polish chemist who discovered the first 4 vitamins and is therefore responsible for curing the 4 correlated diseases. He coined the term "vitamine" in reference to the chemical structure of the first vitamin he discovered, thiamine. He, perhaps unfairly, was never given credit, for the Nobel Prize for the discovery of vitamins were give to predecessors who found a link between certain diets and their resulting deficiency diseases.

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