The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1929
Awarded on: 1929-10-31
"for his discovery of the growth-stimulating vitamins"
Affiliations:
- University of Cambridge – Cambridge, United Kingdom
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Born: 1861-06-20 in Eastbourne, United Kingdom
Gender: male
Field: English biochemist (1861–1947)
Biography
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins 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.