Frederick Gowland Hopkins

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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.

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Notable works: Hopkins & biochemistry, 1861-1947

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It is an old saying, abundantly justified, that where sciences meet there growth occurs. It is true moreover to say that in…

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My main thesis will be that in the study of the intermediate processes of metabolism we have to deal not with complex…

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When physiologists revealed the existence and functions of hormones they not only gave increased opportunities for the activities of biochemists but in…

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As a progressive discipline [biochemistry] belongs to the present century. From the experimental physiologists of the last century it obtained a charter,…

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The cell, too, has a geography, and its reactions occur in colloidal apparatus, of which the form, and the catalytic activity of…

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