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Christiaan Eijkman (n. Nijkerk, 11 de agosto de 1858 - m. Utrecht, 5 de noviembre de 1930). Fisiólogo neerlandés. Es conocido por ser el descubridor de la importancia de las vitaminas en la dieta, identificando por primera vez la vitamina B1. Fue galardonado por sus trabajos con el Premio Nobel de Fisiología o Medicina en 1929.
Christiaan Eijkman (UK: / ˈ eɪ k m ə n, ˈ aɪ k m ə n / AYK-mən, EYEK-mən, US: /-m ɑː n /-mahn, Dutch: [ˈkrɪstijaːn ˈɛikmɑn]; 11 August 1858 – 5 November 1930) was a Dutch physician and professor of physiology whose demonstration that beriberi is caused by poor diet led to the discovery of antineuritic vitamins .
Biographical. Christiaan Eijkman was born on August 11, 1858, at Nijkerk in Gelderland (The Netherlands), the seventh child of Christiaan Eijkman, the headmaster of a local school, and Johanna Alida Pool. A year later, in 1859, the Eijkman family moved to Zaandam, where his father was appointed head of a newly founded school for advanced ...
Christiaan Eijkman (born Aug. 11, 1858, Nijkerk, Neth.—died Nov. 5, 1930, Utrecht) was a Dutch physician and pathologist whose demonstration that beriberi is caused by poor diet led to the discovery of vitamins. Together with Sir Frederick Hopkins, he was awarded the 1929 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Christiaan Eijkman ( Nijkerk, 11 augustus 1858 [1] – Utrecht, 5 november 1930 [2]) was een Nederlands arts, patholoog en Nobelprijswinnaar. Samen met zijn medewerker Gerrit Grijns toonde hij aan dat de ziekte beriberi wordt veroorzaakt door een onvolwaardige voeding. Deze ontdekking lag aan de basis van de ontdekking van vitamines.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1929 was divided equally between Christiaan Eijkman "for his discovery of the antineuritic vitamin" and Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins "for his discovery of the growth-stimulating vitamins"
The Eijkman Molecular Biology Research Center, formerly Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology is a laboratory in Jakarta, Indonesia. It is most known for the discovery by Christiaan Eijkman that Beriberi was caused by a lack of thiamine in the human body.
