Alphabetical Index Index by Year of Birth Nobel Prize laureates
Christiaan Eijkman
* 1858 in Nijkerk
+ 1930 in Utrecht
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Christiaan Eijkman was a Dutch physician and professor of physiology whose demonstration
that beriberi (vitamin B1 deficiency) is caused by poor diet led to the discovery of antineuritic vitamins (thiamine).
Together with Sir Frederick Hopkins, he received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1929 for the discovery of vitamins.
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