San Jacinto
San Jacinto river, c.130 mi (210 km) long, rising in SE Texas as the West Fork and flowing S to Galveston Bay. Its chief tributary is Buffalo Bayou, and both the bayou and the lower river are used for the Houston ship channel. In 1836, Texans under Sam Houston surprised and defeated a larger force of Mexicans in the final and decisive battle of the Texas Revolution on the San Jacinto near the mouth of Buffalo Bayou. The battlefield, a national historic landmark, is in San Jacinto State Park, which has a monument 570 ft (173 m) high; Apr. 21, San Jacinto Day, is a Texas holiday. The U.S.S. Texas is moored near the park. Dams on tributaries include the Barker Dam (39 ft/12 m high; 14 mi/23 km long; completed 1945) on Buffalo Bayou and Addicks Dam (50 ft/15 m high; 12 mi/19 km long; completed 1948) on South Mayde Creek.
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Podium Douglas Allchin: Cherish mistakes, since to err is science
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/25/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...cases from 20th- century biology illustrate that. Christiaan Eijkman shared a Nobel prize in 1929 for the discovery of...while a diet of whole- grain rice did not. However, Eijkman's research was inspired by the germ theory of disease...
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PICK OF THE NIGHT
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 9/27/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...discovery of vitamins, and family rumour has it that he should have won the 1929 Nobel Prize for medicine instead of Dr Christiaan Eijkman. But is this just Vorderman pride? And what more can she find out about her dad, apart from three disparate bits...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/5/1998; 546 words
; ...Ambroise Francois Choderlos de Laclos, soldier and writer, 1803; Maria Anna Angelica Kauffmann, painter, 1807; Christiaan Eijkman, physician, 1930; Maurice Utrillo, painter, 1955; Mack Sennett (Michael Sinnott), film producer and director...
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Rifle that misfired; Taking aim: Two British soldiers, in an early colour image, use their bolt-action weapons during World War I.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 9/11/2008; 700+ words
; ...Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861-1947) was awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1929 with Christiaan Eijkman, for the discovery of vitamins. Giles Foreman, London NW2. QUESTION My daughter, who is 22, still keeps under...
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The Work of Wallace Aykroyd: International Nutritionist and Author
Magazine article from: The Journal of Nutrition; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...and not much else, and it was in the Far East that workers such as Kanehiro Takaki (1849-1920] in Japan and Christiaan Eijkman (1858-1930) and Gerrit Grijns (1865-1944) in Indonesia first showed it to be caused by a deficiency in the...
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Eijkman, Christiaan
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Eijkman, Christiaan ( b . Nijkerk, Netherlands, 11 August...medicine, physiology, nutrition . Eijkman, who in 1929 shared the Nobel Prize...border of the Veluwe. His parents, Christiaan Eijkman and Johanna Alida Pool, had several...
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Christiaan Eijkman
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Christiaan Eijkman , 1858-1930, Dutch physician. He was head of the Pathological Institute of Batavia and later (1898-1928) professor of hygiene...
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Grijns, Gerrit
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...was the causative agent. Christiaan Eijkman, later winner of the Nobel...or even cured the disease. Eijkman firmly believed a bacterium...J. F. Reiht, “ Christiaan Eijkman en Gerri Grijins, ”...
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Thiamine
Book article from: Medical Discoveries
...organism, but one of its members, Christiaan Eijkman (1858-1930) stayed behind to...experiments. Between 1890 and 1897 Eijkman began reporting that chickens fed...patients. Even more important, Eijkman reported that adding rice hulls...
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Vitamin A
Book article from: Medical Discoveries
...previously discovered in rice polishings by Christiaan Eijkman (1858-1930). McCollum termed Eijkman's discovery "water-soluble B...to be named and described. [See also Eijkman, Christiaan ; Hopkins, Frederick Gowland ; Vitamin...
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