Charles Robert Scriver CC GOQ FRS FRSC (November 7, 1930 – April 7, 2023) was a Canadian pediatrician and biochemical geneticist.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, Scriver graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1951 and from the Faculty of Medicine of McGill University in 1955.
In 1969 he discovered that rickets could be caused by vitamin D deficiency among poorer children who drank bottled milk instead of infant formula.
He persuaded Quebec suppliers to add vitamin D to their milk, leading to a decrease in the rate of rickets.
[2][3] Scriver was co-editor of the authoritative multi-volume textbook entitled The Metabolic & Molecular Bases of Inherited Disease, published by McGraw-Hill.