# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lucy-wills
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:39:59.543Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lucy-wills"
name: "Lucy Wills"
slug: "lucy-wills"
description: "Lucy Wills, LRCP was an English haematologist and physician researcher. She conducted seminal work in India in the late 1920s and early 1930s on macrocytic anaemia of pregnancy. Her observations led to her discovery of a nutritional factor in yeast which both prevents and cures this disorder. Macrocytic anaemia is characterized by enlarged red blood cells and is life-threatening. Poor pregnant women in the tropics with inadequate diets are particularly susceptible. The nutritional factor identified by Lucy Wills was subsequently shown to be folate, the naturally occurring form of folic acid."
tagline: "British physician and hematologist (1888-1964)"
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birthDate: "1888-05-10"
deathDate: "1964-04-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump