Frederick Gowland Hopkins

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Sir
Frederick Gowland Hopkins
OM FRS
Born(1861-06-20)20 June 1861
Eastbourne, East Sussex, England
Died16 May 1947(1947-05-16) (aged 85)
Cambridge, England
Alma materGuy's Hospital Medical School
Known forVitamins, tryptophan, glutathione
SpouseJessie Anne Stephens
Children3, including Jacquetta Hawkes
RelativesJ. B. Priestley (son-in-law)
Awards
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, Joseph Needham

Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins OM FRS (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.

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