Introduction: Special Issue on Vitamin D Dedicated to the Memory of Anthony W Norman

摘要

Anthony (Tony) W Norman was born into an “academic” family in 1938 in Ames, Iowa. He obtained his masters and doctoral degrees at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His PhD thesis dealt with “the preparation, distribution and metabolism of tritiated vitamin D" (1963) with Hector F DeLuca as mentor.1 He thereafter moved to California for a postdoctoral fellowship at UCLA in the laboratory of Nobel laureate Paul D Boyer, followed by a first appointment at the University of California–Riverside. There, he was promoted over the years from assistant to full/distinguished professor and chairman of the department of biochemistry. His scientific career was fully devoted to virtually all aspects of vitamin D. Tony Norman was not only a very original hard‐working scientist; he was also a very successful mentor. Two recently published “In Memoriams” provide further details about his career.2, 3