Frederick Gowland Hopkins
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 77 years ago |
Date of birth | June 20,1861 |
Zodiac sign | Gemini |
Born | Eastbourne |
United Kingdom | |
Date of died | May 16,1947 |
Died | Cambridge |
United Kingdom | |
Nationality | British |
Children | Jacquetta Hawkes |
Job | Biochemist |
Awards | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
Royal Medal | |
Order of Merit | |
Copley Medal | |
Education | Imperial College London |
University of London | |
King's College London | |
Guy's Hospital | |
Trinity College | |
Books | Newer Aspects of the Nutrition Problem |
Monographs on Biochemistry | |
Food Economy in War Time | |
Report on the Present State of Knowledge Concerning Accessory Food Factors . (1919) | |
Notable student | Albert Szent-Györgyi |
Ernst Chain | |
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ID | 627882 |
Frederick Gowland Hopkins Life story
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins OM FRS 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.