Suzuki, Umetaro

Umetaro Suzuki (1874-1943) gradnated from the Agricnltnral College of the Imperial University of Tokyo. After the appointment of Associate Professor of the Agricultural College, he first went to ETH of Zurich, Switzerland to work with... 

On the other hand, Nagayoshi Nagai (1845—1929) et al. isolated ephed-rine, which will be discussed in Chapter 16.1. Also, Jokichi Takamine (1854-1922) succeeded in the isolation of adrenaline (epinephrine), and Umetaro Suzuki (1874-1943) discovered oryzanin. 

Thiamine was discovered by Japanese scientist Suzuki Umetaro (1874-1943) in the early twentieth century. Umetaro was investigating a disease known as beriberi that had plagued humans for thousands of years. He found that the disease could be cured by feeding patients a diet that contained rice bran. He was also able to isolate a specific compound in rice bran that produced that effect, a compound he named aberic acid. Aberic acid later became known as thiamine. 

Japanese scientist Suzuki Umetaro discovers thiamine. 

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