Christiaan Eijkman - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1929
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Christiaan Eijkman

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1929
for his discovery of the antineuritic vitamin
Together with: Frederick Hopkins
Citizenship
Kingdom of the NetherlandsKingdom of the Netherlands
Languages
Dutch
date of birth
8/11/1858
place of birth
Nijkerk
date of death
11/5/1930
place of death
Utrecht
Lived
72 years

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occupation
  • bacteriologist
  • university teacher
  • physiologist
  • biochemist
  • pathologist
  • physician
  • scientist
field of work
  • physiology
  • pathology
educated at
  • University of Amsterdam
  • Pasteur Institute
employer
  • Utrecht University
    • start time: 10/1/1898
    • end time: 1918
position held
  • rector of Utrecht University
    • start time: 1912
    • end time: 1913
member of
  • Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1921
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