Carotenoids Volume 5: Nutrition and Health
More than twenty years after the idea of this Carotenoids book series was first discussed, we finally reach the end of the project with Volume 5, which covers the functions and actions of carotenoids in human nutrition and health. In 1971, in Isler’s book
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G. Britton S. Liaaen-Jensen H. Pfander
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Dedication NORMAN I. KRINSKY 29th June 1928 – 28th November 2008 For a period of more than 50 years from his Ph.D work on ‘Studies of Carotenoids and Vitamin A Complexes with Proteins in Plasma and Tissues’, through his post-doctoral work on vision, in the Harvard laboratory of Nobel laureate George Wald, to his long and productive career at Tufts University, Boston, the name ‘Norman Krinsky’ has been synonymous with ‘Carotenoids in Human Health and Nutrition’. A true giant in the field, Norman pioneered so much of current thinking and understanding of the nutritional value and health benefits of carotenoids, and this work is continued by the talented and dedicated group of colleagues that he assembled at Tufts. It is no coincidence that so many chapters in this Volume come from his associates, past and present, with him as a co-author on two of them. A great teacher and communicator, Norman leaves us other legacies. The Gordon Research Conferences on Carotenoids, initiated by him in 1992, continue to go from strength to strength. He was co-chair of the 8th International Symposium on
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