List of Famous people with last name Eijkman
Johann Frederik Eijkman
First Name Johann
Last Name Eijkman
Died on January 7, 1915
Born in Kingdom of the Netherlands, Netherlands, Gelderland
Johan Fredrik Eykman or Johann Frederik Eijkman was a Dutch chemist.
Know him/her
Don't know him/her
Christiaan Eijkman
First Name Christiaan
Born in Kingdom of the Netherlands, Netherlands, Gelderland
Christiaan Eijkman was a Dutch physician and professor of physiology whose demonstration that beriberi is caused by poor diet led to the discovery of antineuritic vitamins (thiamine). Together with Sir Frederick Hopkins, he received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1929 for the discovery of vitamins.
Know him/her
Don't know him/her