Who shared the Nobel Prize with him?
Marie Curie
Ernest Rutherford
Christiaan Eijkman
James Watson
Answer
Christiaan Eijkman shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins for their work on nutrition, particularly the role of vitamin B1 in the prevention of beriberi. Eijkman discovered that beriberi was caused by a deficiency of a certain nutrient in rice, and Hopkins identified the nutrient as thiamine, or vitamin B1.
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