Christiaan Eijkman
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Dutch physician
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Philosophy
Christiaan Eijkman's Degrees
- Doctorate Medicine University of Amsterdam
Why Is Christiaan Eijkman Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, 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 . 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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