| 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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