Johann Frederik Eijkman
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Dutch chemist
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Chemistry
Johann Frederik Eijkman's Degrees
- PhD Chemistry University of Amsterdam
Why Is Johann Frederik Eijkman Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Johan Fredrik Eykman or Johann Frederik Eijkman was a Dutch chemist. Family background He is one of the eight children of Christiaan Eijkman, the headmaster of a local school, and Johanna Alida Pool. His brother Christiaan Eijkman was a physician and professor of physiology whose demonstration that beriberi is caused by poor diet led to the discovery of vitamins. Together with Sir Frederick Hopkins, his brother received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
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