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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 188,082 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Frederick Gowland Hopkins is the 73rd most popular chemist (down from 66th in 2019), the 432nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 439th in 2019) and the 8th 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 73 out of 509Before him are John Howard Northrop, Hans Adolf Krebs, Otto Diels, Theodore William Richards, George de Hevesy, and Richard Willstätter. After him are Gilbert N. Lewis, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Joseph Proust, and Marshall Warren Nirenberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, Frederick Gowland Hopkins ranks 16Before him are Erich von Falkenhayn, Charles Édouard Guillaume, Alfred North Whitehead, Robert Bosch, Halford Mackinder, and Georgy Lvov. After him are Aristide Maillol, Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland, H. H. Holmes, Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, Maximilian von Spee, and Antoine Bourdelle. Among people deceased in 1947, Frederick Gowland Hopkins ranks 26Before him are Aung San, Anton Denikin, Ernst Lubitsch, Pierre Bonnard, Karl Mannheim, and Nicholas Roerich. After him are Victor Lustig, Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, Stanley Baldwin, G. H. Hardy, Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, and Irving Fisher.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Frederick Gowland Hopkins ranks 432 out of 7,765Before him are Deborah Kerr (1921), Princess Margaret of Connaught (1882), David Beckham (1975), Bernie Ecclestone (1930), Tony Blair (1953), and Eadweard Muybridge (1830). After him are Saint Walpurga (710), Robert Edwards (1925), George Mallory (1886), Eadred (923), Hugh Grant (1960), and Gary Moore (1952).

Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Frederick Gowland Hopkins ranks 8Before him are Humphry Davy (1778), William Ramsay (1852), Frederick Sanger (1918), Frederick Soddy (1877), William Crookes (1832), and Francis William Aston (1877). After him are Norman Haworth (1883), John Newlands (1837), Henry Hallett Dale (1875), Robert Robinson (1886), James Dewar (1842), and John Macleod (1876).