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Christiaan Eijkman


Christiaan Eijkman (Nijkerk, August 11, 1858 – Utrecht, November 5, 1930) was a Dutch physician and pathologist whose demonstration that beriberi is caused by poor diet led to the discovery of vitamins. Together with Sir Frederick Hopkins, he was awarded the 1929 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.

Although Eijkman had been sent to Indonesia to study beriberi, the discovery of the cause was accidental. He noticed the symptoms in some chickens used in his laboratory when their feed had been altered temporarily. Later he determined that polished rice lacked the dietary component found in unpolished rice.

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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Laureates
Johannes Fibiger (1926) • Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1927) • Charles Nicolle (1928) • Christiaan Eijkman / Frederick Hopkins (1929) • Karl Landsteiner (1930) • Otto Warburg (1931) • Charles Sherrington / Edgar Adrian (1932) • Thomas Morgan (1933) • George Whipple / George Minot / William Murphy (1934) • Hans Spemann (1935) • Henry Dale / Otto Loewi (1936) • Albert Szent-Gyrgyi (1937) • Corneille Heymans (1938) • Gerhard Domagk (1939) • Henrik Dam / Edward Doisy (1943) • Joseph Erlanger / Herbert Gasser (1944) • Alexander Fleming / Ernst Chain / Howard Florey (1945) • Hermann Muller (1946) • Carl Cori / Gerty Cori / Bernardo Houssay (1947) • Paul Mller (1948) • Walter Hess / Egas Moniz (1949) • Edward Kendall / Tadeusz Reichstein / Philip Hench (1950)




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    "Ik zal handhaven"   (Dutch)
    "I shall stand fast"1
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    physician applies to a person who practices some type of medicine. Such medical practitioners are concerned with maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis and treatment of disease and injury, through both an area of knowledge
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    Beriberi
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    A sufferer - Turn of the 20th Century in southeast Asia
    ICD-10 E 51.1
    ICD-9 265.0

    DiseasesDB 14107

    eMedicine ped/229   med/221
    MeSH D001602 Beriberi
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    A vitamin is a nutrient that is an organic compound required in tiny amounts for essential metabolic reactions in a living organism.[1] The term vitamin
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    Frederick Hopkins
    Born May 20 1861(1861--)
    Eastbourne, Sussex, England
    Died May 16 1947 (aged 87)
    Cambridge, England
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    William Parry Murphy, "for their discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anaemia"[31]
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    "Bhinneka Tunggal Ika"   (Old Javanese)
    "Unity in Diversity"
    National ideology: Pancasila[1]
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    Beriberi
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    A sufferer - Turn of the 20th Century in southeast Asia
    ICD-10 E 51.1
    ICD-9 265.0

    DiseasesDB 14107

    eMedicine ped/229   med/221
    MeSH D001602 Beriberi
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    George Richards Minot,     ';
    William Parry Murphy, "for their discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anaemia"[31]
    1935 Hans Spemann, '' German Empire "for his discovery of the organizer effect in embryonic development"[32]
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    Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger (April 23, 1867 Silkeborg - January 30, 1928 Copenhagen) was a Danish scientist who won the 1926 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Fibiger had claimed to find an organism he called Spiroptera carcinoma that caused cancer in mice and rats.
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    Julius Wagner Ritter von Jauregg, after the abolition of titles of nobility in Austria in 1919 Julius Wagner-Jauregg, (March 7, 1857 Wels, Upper Austria – September 27, 1940 Vienna) was an Austrian physician.
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    Charles Jules Henry Nicolle (September 21, 1866 Rouen - February 28, 1936) was a French bacteriologist who earned the 1928 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his identification of lice as the transmitter of epidemic typhus.
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    Frederick Hopkins
    Born May 20 1861(1861--)
    Eastbourne, Sussex, England
    Died May 16 1947 (aged 87)
    Cambridge, England
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    Karl Landsteiner (June 14 1868, Baden, near Vienna, Austria – June 26 1943, New York City), was an Austrian biologist and physician. He is noted for his development in 1902 of the modern system of classification of blood groups from his dentification of the presence of
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    Otto Heinrich Warburg (October 8, 1883, Freiburg im Breisgau – August 1, 1970, Berlin), son of physicist Emil Warburg, was a German physiologist, medical doctor and Nobel laureate. Warburg was one of the twentieth century's leading cell biologists.
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    Sir Charles Scott Sherrington OM GBE, (27 November 1857 – 4 March 1952) was a British scientist known for his contributions to physiology and neuroscience. He shared the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edgar Douglas Adrian for "for their discoveries regarding
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    Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian OM PRS (Hampstead, London, 30 November 1889 [1] – Cambridge, Cambridgeshire 4 August 1977 [2]) was a British electrophysiologist and recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physiology, won jointly with Sir Charles
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    Thomas Hunt Morgan (September 25, 1866 – December 4, 1945) was an American geneticist and embryologist. Morgan received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1891 and researched embryology during his tenure at Bryn Mawr.
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    George Hoyt Whipple (August 28, 1878 – February 1, 1976) was an American physician, biomedical researcher, and medical school educator and administrator. Whipple shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George Richards Minot and William Parry Murphy "for
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    George Richards Minot (December 2, 1885 in Boston, Massachusetts – February 25, 1950) won the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with William P. Murphy and George H. Whipple for their work in the study of anemia.
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    For other people who share the same name, see William Murphy.


    William Parry Murphy (Stoughton, Wisconsin, February 6, 1892 – October 9, 1987) was an American physician who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George
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    Hans Spemann (June 27, 1869 – September 9, 1941) was a German embryologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1935 for his discovery of the effect now known as embryonic induction, the influence exercised by various parts of the embryo that directs
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