Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1929
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Christiaan Eijkman
Prize share: 1/2
Photo: John Palmer Clarke. Nobel Foundation archive
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Prize share: 1/2
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1929 was divided equally between Christiaan Eijkman "for his discovery of the antineuritic vitamin" and Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins "for his discovery of the growth-stimulating vitamins"
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