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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1929

"for his discovery of the antineuritic vitamin"
"for his discovery of the growth-stimulating vitamins"
Christiaan Eijkman Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Christiaan Eijkman Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
half 1/2 of the prize half 1/2 of the prize
the Netherlands United Kingdom
Utrecht University
Utrecht, the Netherlands		 University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom
b. 1858
d. 1930		 b. 1861
d. 1947
 
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