Did a 1930s Wisconsin farmer not realize he helped discover one of the world's most significant medi

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Did a 1930s Wisconsin farmer not realize he helped discover one of the world's most significant medical breakthroughs?

On Oct. 12, a dedication ceremony was held on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus to celebrate a revolutionary discovery that both prolonged human lives and killed rats.

The American Chemical Society, or ACS, bestowed the National Historic Chemical Landmark designation on warfarin, the generic name for a prescription blood thinner that, in a slightly different form, proved to be an enormously effective rodenticide. The ACS established the awards in 1992 to recognize seminal events in the history of chemistry. An ACS board member, Dr. Lisa Balbes, was among several speakers at the dedication ceremony for warfarin, which was first marketed in the late 1940s and early ’50s.

As it happened, I was invited to say a few words as well, by one of the event’s organizers, Dr. Kevin Walters, public affairs analyst and historian for the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, or WARF. Walters knew — my wife, Jeanan, is his colleague at WARF — that I have been researching and writing a biography of Dr. Karl Paul Link, the colorful UW–Madison biochemist in whose laboratory warfarin and its prequels were discovered.

I began my research several years ago at the behest of Karl’s son, Tom Link, who knew the magnitude of his father’s achievement. (Tom’s mother, Elizabeth “Lisa” Link, was also well known in Madison as an activist with the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.)

My book was sidetracked when the pandemic closed the library that houses Karl Paul Link’s considerable archive, but the finish line is now in sight.

I had, in any case, written about Link and warfarin earlier in newspaper columns. One of the most intriguing came in 2003 around the 50th anniversary of the death of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. I interviewed a Yale professor, Joseph Brent, who had coauthored a new book called “Stalin’s Last Crime” in which a theory was advanced that Stalin’s generals had fatally poisoned him with warfarin.

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I grew up passing the WARF building. I didn't realize the significance of it until later, when I was in nursing school.

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1. So, if you need a blood thinner

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