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Frederick Gowland Hopkins

1861 - 1947

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Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins (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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Frederick Gowland Hopkins is the 165th most popular chemist (down from 92nd in 2019), the 593rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 435th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular British Chemist.

Hopkins was most famous for his poem "The Windhover," which he wrote in 1877.

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Among chemists, Frederick Gowland Hopkins ranks 165 out of 602. Before him are Katalin Karikó, Ei-ichi Negishi, Georg Wittig, Edmond H. Fischer, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, and Bengt I. Samuelsson. After him are Willard Libby, John E. Walker, Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, Robert Bruce Merrifield, Derek Barton, and Richard F. Heck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, Frederick Gowland Hopkins ranks 19. Before him are Alfred North Whitehead, Halford Mackinder, Aristide Maillol, Robert Bosch, José Rizal, and Pehr Evind Svinhufvud. After him are Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont, H. H. Holmes, James Naismith, Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland, Antoine Bourdelle, and Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby. Among people deceased in 1947, Frederick Gowland Hopkins ranks 27. Before him are Ettore Bugatti, Aung San, Han van Meegeren, Karl Mannheim, Ernst Lubitsch, and Nicholas Roerich. After him are G. H. Hardy, Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, Stanley Baldwin, Victor Lustig, Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, and Alexander Löhr.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Frederick Gowland Hopkins ranks 593 out of 8,785. Before him are Jack Phillips (1887), George Green (1793), Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (1897), Margot Fonteyn (1919), William Byrd (1543), and Alexander Pope (1688). After him are Christopher Nolan (1970), Richard Williamson (1940), Gary Moore (1952), Richard Attenborough (1923), David Lean (1908), and Thomas Carlyle (1795).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Frederick Gowland Hopkins ranks 22. Before him are Richard Laurence Millington Synge (1914), M. Stanley Whittingham (1941), William Crookes (1832), George Porter (1920), Harry Kroto (1939), and Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (1897). After him are John E. Walker (1941), Derek Barton (1918), Peter J. Ratcliffe (1954), Peter D. Mitchell (1920), Herbert C. Brown (1912), and James Dewar (1842).

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