Researching Barend Jansen
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Barend Jansen and the Jansen Family Tree
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Some Famous People called Barend Jansen
Barend Coenraad Petrus Jansen
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.
Source: Barend Coenraad Petrus Jansen, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Jansen
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