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Christiaan Eijkman
Christiaan Eijkman
Born	August 11, 1858 Nijkerk, Netherlands
Died	November 5, 1930 Utrecht, Netherlands
Alma mater	University of Amsterdam
Awards	Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1929)
Scientific career
Fields	Tropical diseases

Christiaan Eijkman (August 11, 1858 - November 5, 1930) was a Dutch doctor. He won the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Sir Frederick Hopkins, for the discovery of vitamins

Winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1901 – 1925	Behring (1901) · Ross (1902) · Finsen (1903) · Pavlov (1904) · Koch (1905) · Golgi / Ramón y Cajal (1906) · Laveran (1907) · Mechnikov / Ehrlich (1908) · Kocher (1909) · Kossel (1910) · Gullstrand (1911) · Carrel (1912) · Richet (1913) · Bárány (1914) · Bordet (1919) · Krogh (1920) · Hill / Meyerhof (1922) · Banting / Macleod (1923) · Einthoven (1924)

1926 – 1950	Fibiger (1926) · Wagner-Jauregg (1927) · Nicolle (1928) · Eijkman / Hopkins (1929) · Landsteiner (1930) · Warburg (1931) · Sherrington / Adrian (1932) · Morgan (1933) · Whipple / Minot / Murphy (1934) · Spemann (1935) · Dale / Loewi (1936) · Szent-Györgyi (1937) · Heymans (1938) · Domagk (1939) · Dam / Doisy (1943) · Erlanger / Gasser (1944) · Fleming / Chain / Florey (1945) · Muller (1946) · C.Cori / G.Cori / Houssay (1947) · Müller (1948) · Hess / Moniz (1949) · Kendall / Reichstein / Hench (1950)

1951 – 1975	Theiler (1951) · Waksman (1952) · Krebs / Lipmann (1953) · Enders / Weller / Robbins (1954) · Theorell (1955) · Cournand / Forssmann / Richards (1956) · Bovet (1957) · Beadle / Tatum / Lederberg (1958) · Ochoa / Kornberg (1959) · Burnet / Medawar (1960) · Békésy (1961) · Crick / Watson / Wilkins (1962) · Eccles / Hodgkin / Huxley (1963) · Bloch / Lynen (1964) · Jacob / Lwoff / Monod (1965) · Rous / Huggins (1966) · Granit / Hartline / Wald (1967) · Holley / Khorana / Nirenberg (1968) · Delbrück / Hershey / Luria (1969) · Katz / Euler / Axelrod (1970) · Sutherland (1971) · Edelman / Porter (1972) · Frisch / Lorenz / Tinbergen (1973) · Claude / Duve / Palade (1974) · Baltimore / Temin / Dulbecco (1975)

1976 – 2000	Blumberg / Gajdusek (1976) · Guillemin / Schally / Yalow (1977) · Arber / Nathans / Smith (1978) · Cormack / Hounsfield (1979) · Benacerraf / Dausset / Snell (1980) · Sperry / Hubel / Wiesel (1981) · Bergström / Samuelsson / Vane (1982) · McClintock (1983) · Jerne / Köhler / Milstein (1984) · Brown / Goldstein (1985) · Cohen / Levi-Montalcini (1986) · Tonegawa (1987) · Black / Elion / Hitchings (1988) · Bishop / Varmus (1989) · Murray / Thomas (1990) · Neher / Sakmann (1991) · Fischer / Krebs (1992) · Roberts / Sharp (1993) · Gilman / Rodbell (1994) · Lewis / Nüsslein-Volhard / Wieschaus (1995) · Doherty / Zinkernagel (1996) · Prusiner (1997) · Furchgott / Ignarro / Murad (1998) · Blobel (1999) · Carlsson / Greengard / Kandel (2000)

2001 – present	Hartwell / Hunt / Nurse (2001) · Brenner / Horvitz / Sulston (2002) · Lauterbur / Mansfield (2003) · Axel / Buck (2004) · Marshall / Warren (2005) · Fire / Mello (2006) · Capecchi / Evans / Smithies (2007) · Barré-Sinoussi / Montagnier / zur Hausen (2008) · Blackburn / Greider / Szostak (2009) · Edwards (2010) · Beutler / Hoffmann; Steinman (2011) · Gurdon / Yamanaka (2012) · Rothman / Schekman / Südhof (2013) · O'Keefe / M-B. Moser / E. Moser (2014)

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