Christiaan Eijkman

Christiaan Eijkman (August 11th 1858 - November 5th 1930) is a doctor and pathologist Dutch, Nobel Prize of physiology or medicine in 1929.

Eijkman is born with Nijkerk. He studies in a military medical school of the Université of Amsterdam to enter the army Dutchwomen of the Indies. To the the Indies Dutchwomen, patient, it must return in Europe. He works in the laboratory of Bactériologie of Robert Koch.

He is sent to the the Indies Dutchwomen to study the Béribéri, he becomes there director of the Dokter Djawa School what finishes its short military career. Its first research puts at evil a certain number of theory on the Métabolisme and the Physiologie compared Europeans and of Indonésiens. They show that these theories do not have any scientific base. Its studies on the blood count, the blood serum, the metabolism breathing, the temperature control, inter alia, do not show any difference between Europeans and Indonésiens.

Its most known work is partly accidental, it notices the symptoms of the Béribéri in chickens whose food was modified temporarily. It sometimes happens to make some go up the cause with rice who during a certain time had been peeled. Nourished with the white Rice, the chickens had developed beriberi. This discovery is worth the to him Nobel Prize of physiology or medicine in 1929 for its discovery of the antineuritic vitamin.

Eijkman dies in Utrecht in 1930.

In the years 1960, the government indonésien, for lack of funds, had closed Eijkman Instituut of Jakarta. In 1990, Indonesia created new a " Eijkman Institute of molecular biology " in the buildings of old Eijkman Instituut.

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External bonds

Biography on the site of the foundation Nobel
Biography, page 28-32
'' Eijkman, Christiaan (1858-1930) '', Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland. A.M. Luyendijk-Elshout
Site of the Institute Eijkman of Molecular biology, Jakarta, Indonesia

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