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. Together with Sir Frederick Hopkins, he received the Nobel Prize for... Wikipedia
Born: August 11, 1858, Nijkerk, Netherlands
Died: November 5, 1930 (age 72 years), Utrecht, Netherlands
Education: University of Amsterdam
Award: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1929)