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

From National Geographic ● Nov. 9, 2023

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

From National Geographic ● Nov. 9, 2023

Eijkman researchers with a bachelor’s or master’s degree were offered a chance to stay on if they entered a university Ph.D. program.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 11, 2022

In fact, when the Dutch physician Christiaan Eijkman arrived on the Indonesian island of Java in 1886 to investigate the causes of beriberi, he wasn’t searching for a nutritional cause at all.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2015

In 1897 a Dutch chemist, Eijkman, had succeeded in producing in fowls a similar set of symptoms by feeding them with polished rice alone.

From The Vitamine Manual by Walter H. Eddy