Asteroids named after people called Christiaan
馃懚 Christiaan as a baby name
Christiaan Eijkman (1858-1930) won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his discovery of the antineuritic vitamin, now known as B1 or thiamine. Investigating the disease beriberi in Java, his observations of dietary deficiency led to the discovery of vitamins. He shared the 1929 Nobel Prize with Gowland Hopkins.Discovered 24 September 1960 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T., Palomar
Christiaan A. C. Nell (1875-1960) was cofounder, together with Adriaan J. Gouka, of the Dutch Astronomical and Meteorological Society. With 4000 members, the society continues to flourish on its 100th anniversary. The name was suggested by H. van Woerden.Discovered 16 October 1977 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T., Palomar
Christiaan Sterken (b. 1946), an astronomer at the Free University of Brussels, has a particular interest in 尾 Sct, 未 Sct and S Dor stars. He established the working group on Long-Term Photometry of Variables at the European Southern Observatory and was co-founder of the Journal of Astronomical Data (1995).Discovered 26 March 1971 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T., Palomar
Christiaan Barnard (1922-2001) was a South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant in 1967 .Discovered 17 October 1996 by V. S. Casulli, Colleverde
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