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Frederick Hopkins was an English biochemist who made pioneering discoveries about vitamins and their essential role in human nutrition and health. His work was foundational to modern nutritional science and helped establish biochemistry as a scientific discipline.
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- 1861-06-20
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- 1947-05-16
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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.
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