Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins OM PRS 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.
Hopkins was born in Eastbourne, Sussex, and educated at the City of London School completing his further study with the University of London External Programme and the medical school at Guys Hospital which is now part of Kings College London School of Medicine. He then taught physiology and toxicology at Guys Hospital from 1894 to 1898.
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