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  1. 1858-1930. Dutch bacteriologist. He
  2. identified vitamin B1 deficiency as the cause
  3. of the disease beriberi, and pioneered the
  4. recognition of vitamins as essential to
  5. health. He shared the 1929 Nobel Prize for
  6. Medicine with Frederick Hopkins.
  7.