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Eijkman

[ahyk-mahn]

noun

  1. Christiaan 1858–1930, Dutch physician: Nobel Prize 1929.



Eijkman

/ ˈɛikmɑn /

noun

  1. Christiaan (ˈkriːstiːˌaːn). 1858–1930, Dutch physician, who discovered that beriberi is caused by nutritional deficiency: Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1929

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Meanwhile, Dutch army doctor Christian Eijkman had developed his own theory about beriberi after experiments with chickens.

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For Eijkman, the merger is the end of an era.

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However, Herawati Sudoyo, deputy director for fundamental research at the government-funded Eijkman Institute, which specialises in medical molecular biology and biotechnology, said the vaccines’ ability to withstand the mutation had yet to be determined.

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The essential nutrient was first identified in the early 1900s by a Dutch physician, Christiaan Eijkman, who noted a similarity between the human disease beriberi and a similarly debilitating syndrome in chickens.

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The unsubstantiated claims regarding the necklace drew criticism from health experts in Indonesia, including Herawati Sudoyo, the deputy director of the Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology.

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