Abstract
Herman Almquist diet of heart failure on January 15, 1994. He was born in Montana in 1903 and received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry at University of California, Berkeley, in 1933. Almquist is best known for his discovery, identification, and synthesis of vitamin K, which was rapidly achieved with remarkable scientific skill during 1935–1939, while he was on the faculty of the Department of Poultry Husbandry, University of California, Berkeley. He also carried out basic studies of essential amino acids for chicks. A biography of him was published in Journal of Nutrition 117:409 (1987). Almquist received the Borden Award in 1939 and was made a Fellow of the Poultry Science Association in 1970.
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