Christiaan Eijkman
Dutch physician (1858–1930)
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Updated 2026-05-29
Dutch physician who cracked beriberi's dietary link and basically invented the vitamin concept. Shared a 1929 Nobel Prize with Hopkins for proving food deficiencies could cause disease.
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Christiaan Eijkman was a Dutch physician and professor of physiology whose demonstration that beriberi is caused by poor diet led to the discovery of antineuritic vitamins (thiamine). Together with Sir Frederick Hopkins, he received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1929 for the discovery of vitamins.
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