Frederick Hopkins

Frederick Gowland Hopkins was a British biochemist, physician, and university teacher. He was educated at King's College London, Guy's Hospital, Trinity College, and the University of London. His professional career included positions at King's College London and the University of Cambridge. He worked in the field of biochemistry and was an agnostic.

Hopkins received several awards, including the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the Copley Medal, and the Royal Medal. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

His notable work includes Functional muscular contractures. He had doctoral students Malcolm Dixon and J.B.S. Haldane, and also taught Luis Federico Leloir, Ernst Chain, and Rudolph Peters. He was born in Eastbourne and died in Cambridge in 1947. He spoke English.