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...famed Protestant youth leader, Dr. Jo Eijkman was thrown into concentration camp for denouncing the Nazi policy, scoring the persecution of Jews as unChristian, and writing: "If we do not compromise, if we are willing to suffer for our faith, we will find the path to the heart of our people. There are in Holland more than 7,000 who do not want to bow before Baal. And behind these 7,000 and more, stand millions who are united today in one common creed. This union needs no demonstrations. One demonstration is made by them each week, every Sunday morning...
...century, nutritional scientists discovered that the wasting nerve disease called beriberi, which had afflicted rice-eating Orientals for thousands of years, was caused not by a harmful agent that got into the body but by the lack of a beneficial agent which did not get in. A Dutchman, Christian Eijkman, found that chickens which ate nothing but polished rice developed beriberi, but that if the chickens ate the rice coatings they got better. For a quarter century Dr. Robert Runnels Williams of Bell Telephone Laboratories labored to extract the mysterious "vitamin" from rice coatings, finally squeezed 1/6 oz. from...
...Archibald Vivian Hill, with Otto Meyerhof, a German (1922); Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, with Christian Eijkman, a Dutchman (1929); Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, with Edgar Douglas Adrian, another Englishman...
Died. Dr. Christiaan Eijkman, 72, professor emeritus of the University of Utrecht, Nobel Prize winner in Medicine in 1929 (with Professor Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins of Cambridge University) for his discoveries about vitamins and the causes of beriberi; in Utrecht...
...Nobel Medicine Prizes, voted last month by the Caroline Institute of the University of Stockholm (TIME, Nov. 11), was awarded jointly to Professor Frederick Gowland Hopkins of Cambridge University and Professor Christian Eijkman of the University of Utrecht, for pioneer work in proving the existence, usefulness, necessity of vitamins in nutrition...