# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/christiaan-eijkman
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:56:30.796Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/christiaan-eijkman"
name: "Christiaan Eijkman"
slug: "christiaan-eijkman"
description: "A Dutch physician who proved beriberi came from what people weren't eating — not from infection or toxin — and in doing so opened the door to vitamins as a concept the world had missed."
tagline: "Dutch physician (1858–1930)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Christiaan_Eijkman.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Netherlands"
  isoCode: "NL"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1858-08-11"
deathDate: "1930-11-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           56.96
  momentum:             2.349437458636665
  historical:           21.867176
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 130
tags:
  - name: "Doctors"
    slug: "doctors"
  - name: "Doctor"
    slug: "doctor"
  - name: "Medicine"
    slug: "medicine"
  - name: "Science"
    slug: "science"
  - name: "19th Century"
    slug: "19th-century"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Eijkman"
    title: "Wikipedia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107609"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Christiaan%20Eijkman"
    title: "Pantheon 2.0"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%86_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%AC%DA%A9%D9%85%D9%86"
    title: "کریستین ایجکمن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristian_Eiykman"
    title: "Kristian Eiykman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D1%80%D1%8B%D1%81%D1%86%D1%96%D1%8F%D0%BD_%D0%AD%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Хрысціян Эйкман"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B6%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9A%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%8F%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A8"
    title: "ক্রিশ্চিয়ান এইকমেন"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Eijkman"
    title: "Christiaan Eijkman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%AA%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A6%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "کریستیان ئیکمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Eijkman"
    title: "Christiaan Eijkman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Eijkman"
    title: "Christiaan Eijkman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Eijkman"
    title: "Christiaan Eijkman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Eijkman"
    title: "Christiaan Eijkman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9A%CF%81%CE%AF%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%B1%CE%BD_%CE%88%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%BC%CE%B1%CE%BD"
    title: "Κρίστιαν Έικμαν"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Eijkman"
    title: "Christiaan Eijkman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Eijkman"
    title: "Christiaan Eijkman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Eijkman"
    title: "Christiaan Eijkman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%86_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%AC%DA%A9%D9%85%D9%86"
    title: "کریستین ایجکمن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Eijkman"
    title: "Christiaan Eijkman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Eijkman"
    title: "Christiaan Eijkman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Eijkman"
    title: "Christiaan Eijkman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Eijkman"
    title: "Christiaan Eijkman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Eijkman"
    title: "Christiaan Eijkman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Eijkman"
    title: "Christiaan Eijkman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9B%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%99%D7%90%D7%9F_%D7%90%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%9E%D7%9F"
    title: "כריסטיאן אייקמן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A3%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "كريستيان أيكمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "كريستيان ايكمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Christiaan Eijkman was born 11 August 1858 in the Netherlands and trained as a physician before turning to physiology. His work on beriberi, then a mysterious and often fatal disease, showed that diet — specifically, a deficiency — was the cause, a revelation that upended assumptions about illness. The demonstration led directly to the identification of antineuritic vitamins, what we now call thiamine. In 1929 he shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Sir Frederick Hopkins for the discovery of vitamins. He died 5 November 1930.