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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| 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 1929 → |
| burialPlace |
Zorgvlied Cemetery
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| countryOfCitizenship |
Netherlands
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| dateOfBirth |
1858-08-11
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| dateOfDeath |
1930-11-05
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| educatedAt |
Royal Military Medical Academy in Utrecht
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| employer |
University of Utrecht
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| ethnicGroup |
Dutch
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| familyName |
Eijkman
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| fieldOfWork |
medicine
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nutrition science → physiology → |
| givenName |
Christiaan
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| hasCauseOfDeath |
heart disease
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| 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
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| memberOf |
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
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| nativeLanguage |
Dutch
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| nobelPrizeMotivation |
for the discovery of the antineuritic vitamin
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| notableIdea |
vitamins as essential dietary factors
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| notableStudent |
Gerrit Grijns
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| occupation |
medical researcher
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university teacher → |
| placeOfBirth |
Netherlands
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Nijkerk NERFINISHED → |
| placeOfDeath |
Netherlands
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Utrecht NERFINISHED → |
| positionHeld |
professor of hygiene at Utrecht University
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| researchSubject |
beriberi
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nutrition-related diseases → vitamins → |
| sexOrGender |
male
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| sharesAwardWith |
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
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| workLocation |
Batavia
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Dutch East Indies → |
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Frederick Gowland Hopkins
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Utrecht University
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Utrecht University
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