Dicumarol discovery

In retrospect, it seems probable that the medical profession gained far more from Link s successes as an agricultural chemist than it could have from his practice of medicine. The discovery of Dicumarol and its adoption as an important clinical anticoagulant, and the synthesis of Warfarin and its development as a widely used rodenticide—these accomplishments, which will not be described in this article, alone were more than sufficient to make Karl Link an important name in science. For his work on Dicumarol, Link received the Cameron Award from the University of Edinburgh in 1952, the Lasker Award in 1955 and 1960, the John Scott Award in 1959, and the Kovalenko Medal of the National Academy of Sciences in 1967. He was a Harvey Lecturer... 

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