1971 Press Photo Dr. Herbert Evans, discovered Vitamin E as essential element

Dr. Hebert McLean Evans, who discovered Vitamin E as an essential element in animal and human reproduction in 1926, is dead at age 88. Dr. Evans died Saturday of heart failure after a long illness. Dr. Evans was a professor of anatomy at the University of California at Berkeley until 1966. His research specialty was in embryology where he developed a technique for using dye staining of living cells. He was regarded at the University of California's Medical Center in San Francisco as the faculty's top scholar.

Photo is dated 1971.

Photo measures 8 x 9.25 inches.