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devices to determine pulse and body temperature. His findings are the first results from a long-term study on human metabolism. Energy in Combustion Whereas Santorio concentrated on the weight [...] he conducted were in the area of the new organic chemistry, a branch which scientists thought could not be studied outside of living organ- isms.13 Investigators in organic chemistry were trying to determine [...] (1858 – 1930) who had the chance to explore the cause and cure of beriberi in what today is called a large-scale study. After advanced training in Germany, where Koch had recently identified bacteria
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of the first entomologists, studying the metamorphosis of insects. She described a cycles of 186 species of insects and was a pioneer of scientific research expeditions. Her trip to Surinam (1699-1701) led [...] in Frankfurt. At 13, she started to study the metamorphosis of insects, for example, the development of silkworms fed with the leaves of mulberry and lettuce. In the preface to Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium she writes: From my youth, study of insects occupied me constantly. At first they were silkworms in my hometown, Frankfurt am Main, then I watched much more beautiful butterflies and moths
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for it. This man was Christiaan Eijkman, and the disease was beriberi. Through careful experimentation, including a massive study of over two-hundred-and-eighty thou- sand prisoners in Javanese prisons, Eijkman managed to find the cure. Using the findings of Eijkman’s study, scientists were able to isolate a nutrient called thiamin, also known as vitamin B1. Eijkman had, through his research, formed [...] few years old, his family relo- cated to Zaandam, a larger city in the Netherlands. In Zaandam, he began his education at his father’s school. He progressed in his studies with ease and passed
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