| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Year: | 1929 |
| Number: | 81 - 0 |
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Nominee 1:
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| Name: | Frederick G Hopkins |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1861 |
| Year, Death: | 1947 |
| Profession: | prof biochemistry |
| University: | University of Cambridge |
| City: | Cambridge |
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1929 |
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Nominee 2:
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| Name: | Christiaan E Eijkman |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1858 |
| Year, Death: | 1930 |
| Profession: | prof hygiene |
| University: | Utrecht University |
| City: | Utrecht |
| Country: | NETHERLANDS (NL) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1929 |
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Nominee 3:
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| Name: | Lafayette B Mendel |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1872 |
| Year, Death: | 1935 |
| Profession: | prof physiological chemistry |
| City: | New Haven |
| State: | CT |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |
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| Motivation: | F. Hopkins: Discovery that certain accessory factors of the diet are necessary for growth.
This laid the groundwork for the later discovery of vitamins.
C. Eijkman: Interpreted the discovery of the dietetic origin of beri beri as due to a toxic substance.
L. Mendel: Work on vitamins; experiments with rats.
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Nominator:
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| Name: | George Barger |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1878 |
| Year, Death: | 1939 |
| Profession: | prof medical chemistry |
| City: | Edinburgh |
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
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