Eijkman & Beriberi -- Web Excursions
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The Characters

  • Nobel Prize award citation.
  • Biography of Christiaan Eijkman and prize lecture, Nobel e-Museum.
  • Biography of Frederick Gowland Hopkins and prize lecture, Nobel e-Museum.
  • Umetaro Suzuki, the first(?) to isolate 'aberic acid', the compound now known as thaimine (vitamin B1)

    The Setting & Historical Background

  • History of the Dutch East Indies with "an attitude".
  • War, Spices and the "Indies"
  • Growth of the Dutch empire.
  • An introduction to Indonesian music -- the gamelan, an orchestra of gongs and metallophones.
  • Gongcast -- a sampling of gamelan music for RealPlayer6+.
  • Gamelan in the Twin Cities: the Schubert Club Ensemble, with classes by the Indonesian Performing Arts Assoc. of Minn. -- with a few short excerpts.

     



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