About Barend Coenraad Petrus Jansen
Lived 1884 – 1962 (aged 78). Barend Coenraad Petrus Jansen was a Dutch chemist, biochemist and university teacher.
B. C. P. Jansen (1 April 1884, Zwolle – 18 October 1962) was a Dutch chemist and biochemist. In the Dutch Indies, with his colleague W. F. Donath, he isolated in crystalline form an anti-beriberi factor (known as vitamine B1 or aneurin) from rice polishings and named it thiamine (sulfur-containing amine). It was the first vitamine to be obtained in pure form.
Jansen was elected a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1927, he resigned in 1929. He was re-admitted as member in 1946.
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Dutch biochemist (1884-1962)
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Barend Coenraad Petrus Jansen was born on 1 April 1884 in Zwolle.
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Barend Coenraad Petrus Jansen died on 18 October 1962 in Amsterdam.
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Barend Coenraad Petrus Jansen was a chemist, biochemist and university teacher.
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