1861 - 1947
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, even though Casimir Funk, a Polish biochemist, is widely credited with discovering 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 128,037 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Frederick Gowland Hopkins is the 66th most popular chemist (up from 96th in 2019), the 440th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 494th in 2019) and the 9th most popular British Chemist.
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Among chemists, Frederick Gowland Hopkins ranks 66 out of 510. Before him are John Stith Pemberton, Gerty Cori, Casimir Funk, Dorothy Hodgkin, Jacques Monod, and Vladimir Prelog. After him are George de Hevesy, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Hans Fischer, Johann Rudolf Glauber, Kary Mullis, and Adolf Windaus.
1831 - 1888
HPI: 73.72
Rank: 60
1896 - 1957
HPI: 73.72
Rank: 61
1884 - 1967
HPI: 73.68
Rank: 62
1910 - 1994
HPI: 73.66
Rank: 63
1910 - 1976
HPI: 73.63
Rank: 64
1906 - 1998
HPI: 73.51
Rank: 65
1861 - 1947
HPI: 73.48
Rank: 66
1885 - 1966
HPI: 73.48
Rank: 67
1865 - 1929
HPI: 73.42
Rank: 68
1881 - 1945
HPI: 73.40
Rank: 69
1604 - 1670
HPI: 73.39
Rank: 70
1944 - 2019
HPI: 73.37
Rank: 71
1876 - 1959
HPI: 73.36
Rank: 72
Among people born in 1861, Frederick Gowland Hopkins ranks 16. Before him are Charles Édouard Guillaume, Erich von Falkenhayn, Alfred North Whitehead, Robert Bosch, Halford Mackinder, and Georgy Lvov. After him are Aristide Maillol, H. H. Holmes, José Rizal, Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland, Antoine Bourdelle, and Pehr Evind Svinhufvud. Among people deceased in 1947, Frederick Gowland Hopkins ranks 24. Before him are Black Dahlia, Anton Denikin, Halford Mackinder, Karl Mannheim, Ernst Lubitsch, and Pierre Bonnard. After him are Nicholas Roerich, Han van Meegeren, Victor Lustig, Irving Fisher, Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, and Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted.
1861 - 1938
HPI: 76.40
Rank: 10
1861 - 1922
HPI: 76.13
Rank: 11
1861 - 1947
HPI: 75.87
Rank: 12
1861 - 1942
HPI: 75.82
Rank: 13
1861 - 1947
HPI: 74.66
Rank: 14
1861 - 1925
HPI: 74.49
Rank: 15
1861 - 1947
HPI: 73.48
Rank: 16
1861 - 1944
HPI: 73.41
Rank: 17
1861 - 1896
HPI: 72.79
Rank: 18
1861 - 1896
HPI: 71.97
Rank: 19
1861 - 1951
HPI: 71.96
Rank: 20
1861 - 1929
HPI: 71.49
Rank: 21
1861 - 1944
HPI: 71.39
Rank: 22
1924 - 1947
HPI: 75.07
Rank: 18
1872 - 1947
HPI: 74.67
Rank: 19
1861 - 1947
HPI: 74.66
Rank: 20
1893 - 1947
HPI: 74.61
Rank: 21
1892 - 1947
HPI: 74.31
Rank: 22
1867 - 1947
HPI: 74.22
Rank: 23
1861 - 1947
HPI: 73.48
Rank: 24
1874 - 1947
HPI: 73.44
Rank: 25
1889 - 1947
HPI: 72.77
Rank: 26
1890 - 1947
HPI: 72.49
Rank: 27
1867 - 1947
HPI: 72.43
Rank: 28
1902 - 1947
HPI: 72.36
Rank: 29
1879 - 1947
HPI: 72.35
Rank: 30
Among people born in United Kingdom, Frederick Gowland Hopkins ranks 440 out of 6,924. Before him are Walter Raleigh (1554), John Dowland (1563), James IV of Scotland (1473), Thomas Hardy (1840), Edgar the Peaceful (943), and Erasmus Darwin (1731). After him are Sid Vicious (1957), Oliver Sacks (1933), William Adams (1564), David Beckham (1975), Gary Moore (1952), and Edward the Martyr (962).
1554 - 1618
HPI: 73.51
Rank: 434
1563 - 1626
HPI: 73.51
Rank: 435
1473 - 1513
HPI: 73.51
Rank: 436
1840 - 1928
HPI: 73.49
Rank: 437
943 - 975
HPI: 73.48
Rank: 438
1731 - 1802
HPI: 73.48
Rank: 439
1861 - 1947
HPI: 73.48
Rank: 440
1957 - 1979
HPI: 73.47
Rank: 441
1933 - 2015
HPI: 73.47
Rank: 442
1564 - 1620
HPI: 73.47
Rank: 443
1975 - Present
HPI: 73.47
Rank: 444
1952 - 2011
HPI: 73.47
Rank: 445
962 - 978
HPI: 73.47
Rank: 446
Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Frederick Gowland Hopkins ranks 9. Before him are William Ramsay (1852), Frederick Soddy (1877), Frederick Sanger (1918), William Crookes (1832), Arthur Harden (1865), and Francis William Aston (1877). After him are Norman Haworth (1883), Robert Robinson (1886), Henry Hallett Dale (1875), Harry Kroto (1939), William Hyde Wollaston (1766), and John Macleod (1876).
1852 - 1916
HPI: 77.37
Rank: 3
1877 - 1956
HPI: 75.22
Rank: 4
1918 - 2013
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 5
1832 - 1919
HPI: 74.85
Rank: 6
1865 - 1940
HPI: 74.25
Rank: 7
1877 - 1945
HPI: 74.16
Rank: 8
1861 - 1947
HPI: 73.48
Rank: 9
1883 - 1950
HPI: 72.61
Rank: 10
1886 - 1975
HPI: 71.46
Rank: 11
1875 - 1968
HPI: 71.40
Rank: 12
1939 - 2016
HPI: 70.99
Rank: 13
1766 - 1828
HPI: 70.94
Rank: 14
1876 - 1935
HPI: 70.85
Rank: 15