Christiaan Eijkman
Dutch physician
Died when: 72 years 86 days (866 months)Star Sign: Leo
Christiaan Eijkman (UK: /ˈeɪkmən, ˈaɪkmən/ AYK-mən, EYEK-mən, US: /-mɑːn/ -mahn, Dutch: [ˈkrɪstijaːn ˈɛikmɑn]; 11 August 1858 – 5 November 1930) was a Dutch physician and professor of physiology whose demonstration that beriberi was 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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