Christiaan Eijkman

Christiaan Eijkman was a Dutch physician and professor of physiology whose demonstration that beriberi 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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Who was born first?

• Christiaan Eijkman and Liberty Hyde Bailey were born the same year
• Christiaan Eijkman and Giuseppe Peano were born the same year
• Christiaan Eijkman and William Henry Pickering were born the same year
• Christiaan Eijkman and Jagadish Chandra Bose were born the same year
• Christiaan Eijkman and Mary Adela Blagg were born the same year

Timeline

1. Christiaan Eijkman (this page)August 11, 1858 – November 5, 1930
2. Giuseppe PeanoAugust 27, 1858 – April 20, 1932
3. Jagadish Chandra BoseNovember 30, 1858 – November 23, 1937
4. Liberty Hyde BaileyMarch 15, 1858 – December 25, 1954
5. Mary Adela BlaggMay 17, 1858 – April 14, 1944
6. William Henry PickeringFebruary 15, 1858 – January 1938

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