Christiaan Eijkman was a pioneer in the study of diseases that result from deficiencies in a patient's diet. His major contribution was the discovery that the lack of some vital substance in food caused a disease in chickens similar to beriberi in man....

Born in the Netherlands in 1858, Eijkman received his medical degree from the University of Amsterdam in 1883, then went to Germany to study under the famous bacteriologist, Robert Koch. Encouraged by Koch, in 1887 Eijkman joined a commission sent to...

The Dutch physician and biologist Christian Eijkman (1858-1930) was a pioneer in the study of the biochemical basis of health and in the recognition and study of vitamins. Christian Eijkman was born to a schoolteacher in Nijkerk on Aug. 11, 1858. He...

1858-1930 Dutch Physician and Pathologist Christiaan Eijkman was a Dutch physician who shared the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sir Frederick Hopkins (1861-1947) for their demonstration that beriberi is caused by poor diet. This work...

Christiaan Eijkman (Nijkerk, August 11, 1858 – Utrecht, November 5, 1930) was a Dutch physician and pathologist whose demonstration that beriberi is caused by poor diet led to the discovery of vitamins. Together with Sir Frederick Hopkins, he was...