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Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1858)
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Dutch physician (1858–1930)
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…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
One of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize is not a single prize, but five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's 1895 will, are…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)