Eijkman

American  

[ahyk-mahn] / ˈaɪk mɑn /

noun

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

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Eijkman British  

/ 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.

From National Geographic ● Nov. 9, 2023

Eijkman pursued that line of research, discovering that prison populations fed white rice were also afflicted with beriberi.

From National Geographic ● Nov. 9, 2023

Habibie realized “Indonesia needed to have a capacity in basic science,” says Sudoyo, one of the first scientists hired after Eijkman reopened.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 11, 2022

That cook had been replaced, and his successor, Eijkman later related, “refused to allow military rice to be taken for civilian chickens.”

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2015

When Casimir Funk made his original studies of the chemical fractions of an alcohol extract of rice polishings he utilized a discovery of the Dutch chemist Eijkman.

From The Vitamine Manual by Eddy, Walter H.