Christiaan Eijkman
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Christiaan Eijkman was a Dutch physician and Nobel Prize–winning physiologist whose work on beriberi helped establish the concept of vitamins as essential dietary factors.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| Christiaan Eijkman canonical | 8 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine
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human ⓘ physician ⓘ physiologist ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ⓘ
surface form:
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1929
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| burialPlace | Zorgvlied Cemetery ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Netherlands ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1858-08-11 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1930-11-05 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Royal Military Medical Academy in Utrecht ⓘ |
| employer |
Utrecht University
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surface form:
University of Utrecht
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| ethnicGroup | Dutch ⓘ |
| familyName | Eijkman ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
medicine
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nutrition science ⓘ physiology ⓘ |
| givenName | Christiaan ⓘ |
| hasCauseOfDeath | heart disease ⓘ |
| influenced |
development of vitamin B1 (thiamine) concept
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modern nutritional science ⓘ |
| knownFor |
demonstrating that polished rice diet causes beriberi in chickens
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discovery of dietary factors preventing beriberi ⓘ early work leading to the concept of vitamins ⓘ research on beriberi ⓘ showing that unpolished rice prevents beriberi ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Dutch ⓘ |
| memberOf | Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Dutch ⓘ |
| nobelPrizeMotivation | for the discovery of the antineuritic vitamin ⓘ |
| notableIdea | vitamins as essential dietary factors ⓘ |
| notableStudent | Gerrit Grijns ⓘ |
| occupation |
medical researcher
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university teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Netherlands
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Nijkerk ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Netherlands
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Utrecht ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor of hygiene at Utrecht University ⓘ |
| researchSubject |
beriberi
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nutrition-related diseases ⓘ vitamins ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sharesAwardWith | Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Batavia
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Dutch East Indies ⓘ |
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Frederick Gowland Hopkins