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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frederick Gowland Hopkins has received more than 201,429 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia. Frederick Gowland Hopkins is the 92nd most popular chemist (down from 73rd in 2019), the 435th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 432nd in 2019) and the 11th most popular British Chemist.

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

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Frederick Gowland Hopkins ranks 92 out of 602. Before him are Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Michel Eugène Chevreul, Richard Kuhn, Edward Adelbert Doisy, Paul Hermann Müller, and Hans von Euler-Chelpin. After him are Vladimir Prelog, Leopold Ružička, Marshall Warren Nirenberg, Katalin Karikó, Karl Ziegler, and Martin Heinrich Klaproth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, Frederick Gowland Hopkins ranks 18. Before him are Alfred North Whitehead, Halford Mackinder, James Naismith, Robert Bosch, José Rizal, and Aristide Maillol. After him are Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, H. H. Holmes, Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland, Antoine Bourdelle, and Italo Svevo. Among people deceased in 1947, Frederick Gowland Hopkins ranks 24. Before him are Anton Denikin, Aung San, Ernst Lubitsch, Han van Meegeren, G. H. Hardy, and Karl Mannheim. After him are Pierre Bonnard, Nicholas Roerich, Black Dahlia, Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, and Stanley Baldwin.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Frederick Gowland Hopkins ranks 435 out of 8,785. Before him are John Buchan (1875), Sam Neill (1947), John Bowlby (1907), John Donne (1572), Ralph Fiennes (1962), and Isaac Barrow (1631). After him are Elizabeth Blackwell (1821), Richard Attenborough (1923), Ronald Coase (1910), Cary Grant (1904), Marie of Romania (1875), and Charles Dance (1946).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Frederick Gowland Hopkins ranks 11. Before him are Arthur Harden (1865), Frederick Soddy (1877), Norman Haworth (1883), Francis William Aston (1877), William Crookes (1832), and Henry Hallett Dale (1875). After him are Robert Robinson (1886), Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1897), Richard Laurence Millington Synge (1914), Archer Martin (1910), Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (1897), and John Newlands (1837).

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