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Christiaan Eijkman

Christiaan Eijkman
Dutch physician Christiaan Eijkman won the 1929 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. Eijkman discovered the substance in food, later identified as a B vitamin, whose deficiency caused beriberi.
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