Gerardus Johannes Mulder
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Gerardus Johannes Mulder (Dec 27, 1802, Utrecht - Apr 18, 1880, Bennekom) was a Dutch organic chemist who described the chemical composition of proteins and after correspondence with Jöns Jakob Berzelius named them in his paper 'On the composition of some animal substances'. In the same publication he also proposed that animals draw most of their protein from plants.