Awards & Winners

Frederick Gowland Hopkins

Date of Birth 20-June-1861
Place of Birth Eastbourne
(United Kingdom, East Sussex, England)
Nationality United Kingdom
Also know as Sir Frederick Hopkins
Profession Chemist
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins OM FRS 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.

Awards by Frederick Gowland Hopkins

Check all the awards nominated and won by Frederick Gowland Hopkins.

1929


Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(for his discovery of the growth-stimulating vitamins)

1926


Copley Medal
(For his distinguished and fruitful work in biochemistry.)