Frederick Gowland Hopkins

Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Born(1861-06-20)20 June 1861
Died16 May 1947(1947-05-16) (aged 85)
Cambridge, England
EducationCity of London School, Guy's Hospital
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.