EVANS, Herbert McLean (1882 – 1971)
1882 – 1971
9 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1921 CE
#1163
The effect of the anterior lobe administered intraperitoneally upon growth, maturity and oestrus cycles of the rat.
Evans and Long discovered the growth hormone of the anterior pituitary, showing that continued injections of an anterior pituitary extract produced an acceleration in the growth-rate of laboratory animals.
1922 CE
#1055
On the existence of a hitherto unrecognized dietary factor essential for reproduction.
Discovery of vitamin E. See also their later paper in J. Amer. med. Ass.,1923, 81, 889-92.
1934 CE
#11358
Exhibition of first editions of epochal achievements in the history of science.
Briefly annotated listings of 114 classics under the headings of Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry, Geology, Botany, Zoology, and the Hearst Medical Papyrus. Strangely, several major medical and biological cl…
1934 CE
#1070
Vital need of the body for certain unsaturated fatty acids.
Isolation of vitamin F (linolenic acid).
1936 CE
#1071
The isolation from wheat-germ oil of an alcohol, α-tocopherol, having the properties of vitamin E.
Isolation of vitamin E, named by Herbert M. Evans.
1940 CE
#1173.1
Interstitial cell stimulating hormone. II. Method of preparation and some physico-chemical studies.
Choh Hao Li and colleagues isolated of the interstitial cell stimulating (luteinizing) hormone.
1943 CE
#1174
Adrenocorticotropic hormone.
Choh Hao Li and colleagues Isolated pure adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) from sheep pituitary glands.
1945 CE
#1175.1
Isolation and properties of the anterior hypophyseal growth hormone.
Choh Hao Li and colleagues isolated the anterior pituitary growth hormone.
1949 CE
#1175.2
Isolation of pituitary follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH).
By Choh Hao Li and colleagues.