Frederick Gowland Hopkins
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Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins OM PRS[1] (20 Juin 1861 – 16 Mey 1947) wis an Inglis biochemist wha wis awairdit the Nobel Prize in Pheesiology or Medicine in 1929, wi Christiaan Eijkman, for the discovery o vitamins, even tho Casimir Funk, a Pols biochemist, is widely creditit wi discoverin vitamins. He an aa discovered the amino acid tryptophan, in 1901. He wis Preses o the Ryal Society frae 1930 tae 1935.
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Born | 20 Juin 1861(1861-06-20) Eastbourne, Sussex, Ingland, Unitit Kinrick |
Dee'd | 16 Mey 1947(1947-05-16) (aged 85) Cambridge, Ingland, Unitit Kinrick |
Naitionality | Inglis |
Alma mater | King's College London Guy's Hospital |
Kent for | Vitamins, tryptophan, glutathione |
Awairds | Nobel Prize (1929) Ryal Medal (1918) Copley Medal (1926) Albert Medal (1934) Order o Meerit (1935) |
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Fields | Biochemistry |
Institutions | Varsity o Cambridge |
Academic advisors | Thomas Stevenson |
Doctoral students | Judah Hirsch Quastel Malcolm Dixon |
Ither notable students | J.B.S. Haldane |
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