Frederick Gowland Hopkins
English biochemist
Died when: 85 years 330 days (1030 months)Star Sign: Gemini
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins OM PRS (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, even though Casimir Funk, a Polish biochemist, was widely credited with discovering 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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