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AT a joint meeting of the Nutrition Society and the Biochemical Society held on April 28, at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the subject of the vitamin B2 complex was discussed. The chairman of the morning session, Prof. R. A. Peters, reviewed the early history of vitamin B, describing the experiments on the basis of which the heat-labile vitamin B1 was differentiated from the heat-stable vitamin B2, and the composite nature of the heat-stable component was eventually recognized. He read a prophetic passage from a letter written many years ago by Sir Charles Martin, suggesting that vitamin B might be composed of several different factors.
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The Vitamin B2 Complex. Nature 156, 86–87 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156086a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/156086a0