Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Frederick Gowland Hopkins
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an English biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1929, with Christiaan Eijkman, for the discovery of vitamins
Born
20 June 1861 Eastbourne, Sussex, England, United Kingdom
Died
16 May 1947 (aged 85) Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Nationality
English
Known for
Vitamins, tryptophan, glutathione
Fields
Biochemistry
Alma mater
King's College London Guy's Hospital
Awards
Royal Medal (1918) Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh (1922) Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (1924) Copley Medal (1926) Nobel Prize (1929) Albert Medal
Institutions
University of Cambridge
Academic advisors
Thomas Stevenson Sir Michael Foster
adultbasic
Britain
Doctoral students
Judah Hirsch Quastel Malcolm Dixon Antoinette Pirie
Education
City of London School
era
1800+
Other notable students
J.B.S. Haldane Albert Szent-Györgyi