Edward Doisy won a 1943 Nobel Prize for synthesizing this hemorrhage-inhibiting vitamin; isn't that "special"?
Henrik Dam 
and Edward Doisy won the 1943 Nobel Prize for the discovery... [DOC] [TLE] Search results for vitamin b | Natural Remedies.org (2) [PAR] Situations such as gastrointestinal illnesses that may inhibit the absorption of 
thiamine ..... Dr. Albert Szent-Gyorgy earned the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1937 
for the discovery ... A Vitamin K deficiency causes bleeding that's difficult to 
control.