Definitions
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- noun Dutch physician who discovered that beriberi is caused by a nutritional deficiency (1858-1930)
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Examples
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Funk's attempt was extremely praiseworthy, and his publications doubtless awakened new interest in Eijkman's original discovery.
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'The Chicken Farm Game' and also get on board with Eijkman to fight beriberi!
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Gustiananda is now a researcher at the Eijkman Institute, where she is using a new branch of genetic analysis called immunoinformatics to develop vaccines for influenza using computer models.
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'The Chicken Farm Game' and also get on board with Eijkman to fight beriberi!
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Gustiananda is now a researcher at the Eijkman Institute, where she is using a new branch of genetic analysis called immunoinformatics to develop vaccines for influenza using computer models.
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To cover up, Japan blamed Mochtar and the staff of the Eijkman – which had been involved in parallel vaccine work – and arrested them in October 1944.
Achmad Mochtar died to save his wartime colleagues, academic discovers 2010
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There was a clear case for Grijns, but he had not been re-nominated for that particular year, and it could be said that he was just taking the relatively obvious next steps along the new trail that had been laid down by Eijkman.
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If Eijkman represented the approach to vitamins from a clinical perspective, there had also been the, at least, equally fruitful "academic" approach using rodents and purified diets.
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On the other hand, Eijkman had been re-nominated for his work done 35 years earlier; he was also now an old man in poor health, so that it might well be the final year in which he would live to receive such an honor.
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Hopkins said that he had received the award for the wrong reason and Eijkman did not travel to Stockholm, at least nominally on the ground of ill health, though it has been suggested that he may have been equally deterred by skepticism about the cause of beriberi.
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