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Sir
Frederick Gowland Hopkins
OM FRS
Born(1861-06-20)20 June 1861
Eastbourne, Sussex, England
Died16 May 1947(1947-05-16) (aged 85)
Cambridge, England
EducationCity of London School
Alma materGuy's Hospital
Known forVitamins, tryptophan, glutathione
Awards
  • Royal Medal (1918)
  • Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh (1922)
  • Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (1924)[1]
  • Copley Medal (1926)
  • Nobel Prize (1929)
  • Albert Medal (1934)
  • Order of Merit (1935)
Scientific career
FieldsBiochemistry
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
Academic advisorsThomas Stevenson
Sir Michael Foster
Doctoral studentsJudah Hirsch Quastel
Malcolm Dixon
Antoinette Pirie
Other notable studentsJ.B.S. Haldane
Albert Szent-Györgyi[2]

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]

  1. ^ "Frederick Hopkins".
  2. ^ Szent-Györgyi, Albert (1929). Observations on the functions of peroxidase systems and the chemistry of the adrenal cortex. jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 1063377732. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.648034.[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ Dale, Henry Hallett (1948). "Frederick Gowland Hopkins. 1861–1947". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 6 (17): 115–126. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1948.0022. S2CID 177244789.
  4. ^ Online catalogue of Hopkins' personal and working papers (part of the Manuscript collections held at Cambridge University Library)

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