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; ...painter, 1778; Charlotte Mary Yonge, novelist, 1823; Marie-Francois Sadi Carnot, engineer and statesman, 1837; Christiaan Eijkman, physician, 1858; Helen Broderick, actress and comedienne, 1891; Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve), poet...
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Podium Douglas Allchin: Cherish mistakes, since to err is science
; ...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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The Work of Wallace Aykroyd: International Nutritionist and Author
; ...rice 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 diet...
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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.
; ...isotopes. 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 her...
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PICK OF THE NIGHT
; ...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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