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Christiaan Eijkman (August 11, 1858, Nijkerk
Nijkerk

Media:Nl-Nijkerk.ogg is a municipality and a city in the middle of the Netherlands, in the province of Gelderland....
 – November 5, 1930, Utrecht
Utrecht (city)

Utrecht city and municipality is the capital and most populous city of the Netherlands province of Utrecht . It is located in the North-Eastern end of the Randstad, and is the fourth largest city of the Netherlands, with a population of 300,030....
) was a Dutch
Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
 physician
Physician

A physician, medical practitioner, doctor of medicine, or medical doctor practices medicine, and is concerned with maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease and injury....
 and pathologist whose demonstration that beriberi
Beriberi

Beriberi is a nervous system ailment caused by a deficiency of thiamine in the Diet . Thiamine is involved in the breakdown of energy molecules such as glucose, and is also found on the Cell membrane of neurons....
 is caused by poor diet led to the discovery of vitamin
Vitamin

A vitamin is an organic compound required as a nutrient in tiny amounts by an organism. A compound is called a vitamin when it cannot be biosynthesis in sufficient quantities by an organism, and must be obtained from the diet....
s. Together with Sir Frederick Hopkins
Frederick Hopkins

Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins Order of Merit Royal Society was an England biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1929, with Christiaan Eijkman, for the discovery of vitamins....
, he received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.

Although Eijkman had been sent to Indonesia
Indonesia

The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....
 to study Beriberi
Beriberi

Beriberi is a nervous system ailment caused by a deficiency of thiamine in the Diet . Thiamine is involved in the breakdown of energy molecules such as glucose, and is also found on the Cell membrane of neurons....
, 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.






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Christiaan Eijkman (August 11, 1858, Nijkerk
Nijkerk

Media:Nl-Nijkerk.ogg is a municipality and a city in the middle of the Netherlands, in the province of Gelderland....
 – November 5, 1930, Utrecht
Utrecht (city)

Utrecht city and municipality is the capital and most populous city of the Netherlands province of Utrecht . It is located in the North-Eastern end of the Randstad, and is the fourth largest city of the Netherlands, with a population of 300,030....
) was a Dutch
Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
 physician
Physician

A physician, medical practitioner, doctor of medicine, or medical doctor practices medicine, and is concerned with maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease and injury....
 and pathologist whose demonstration that beriberi
Beriberi

Beriberi is a nervous system ailment caused by a deficiency of thiamine in the Diet . Thiamine is involved in the breakdown of energy molecules such as glucose, and is also found on the Cell membrane of neurons....
 is caused by poor diet led to the discovery of vitamin
Vitamin

A vitamin is an organic compound required as a nutrient in tiny amounts by an organism. A compound is called a vitamin when it cannot be biosynthesis in sufficient quantities by an organism, and must be obtained from the diet....
s. Together with Sir Frederick Hopkins
Frederick Hopkins

Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins Order of Merit Royal Society was an England biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1929, with Christiaan Eijkman, for the discovery of vitamins....
, he received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.

Although Eijkman had been sent to Indonesia
Indonesia

The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....
 to study Beriberi
Beriberi

Beriberi is a nervous system ailment caused by a deficiency of thiamine in the Diet . Thiamine is involved in the breakdown of energy molecules such as glucose, and is also found on the Cell membrane of neurons....
, 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. Eijkman was unable to continue his research due to ill health, but a study by his friend Adolphe Vorderman
Adolphe Vorderman

Adolphe Guillaume Vorderman was a Netherlands physician and scientist whose extensive and scrupulous study of the link between polished rice and Beriberi in the Dutch East Indies in 1897 helped lead to the discovery of vitamins....
 confirmed the link between polished rice and the disease. Eventually it was determined the missing compound that was causing Beriberi was vitamin B1, thiamine
Thiamine

'Thiamine', or 'thiamin', sometimes called aneurin, is a water-soluble vitamin of the B complex , whose phosphate derivatives are involved in many cellular processes....
.

External links

  • Museum Boerhaave
  • A.M. Luyendijk-Elshout, , in Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland.
  • Biography of at the National Library of the Netherlands