Frederick Gowland Hopkins
English biochemist (1861–1947) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Frederick Hopkins" redirects here. For the English Jesuit and Catholic bishop, see Frederick C. Hopkins.
For the British political activist, see Frederick Jesse Hopkins. For the suspected mass shooter in South Carolina, see Florence, South Carolina shooting.
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins OM FRS[3] (20 June 1861 – 16 May 1947) was an English biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1929, with Christiaan Eijkman, for the discovery of vitamins. He also discovered the amino acid tryptophan, in 1901. He was President of the Royal Society from 1930 to 1935.[4]
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Born | (1861-06-20)20 June 1861 Eastbourne, Sussex, England |
Died | 16 May 1947(1947-05-16) (aged 85) Cambridge, England |
Education | City of London School |
Alma mater | King's College London Guy's Hospital |
Known for | Vitamins, tryptophan, glutathione |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Biochemistry |
Institutions | University of Cambridge |
Academic advisors | Thomas Stevenson Sir Michael Foster |
Doctoral students | Judah Hirsch Quastel Malcolm Dixon Antoinette Pirie |
Other notable students | J.B.S. Haldane Albert Szent-Györgyi[2] |
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