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. 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, Frederick Gowland Hopkins ranks 73 out of 509. Before 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.
1891 - 1987
HPI: 65.98
Rank: 67
1900 - 1981
HPI: 65.82
Rank: 68
1876 - 1954
HPI: 65.81
Rank: 69
1868 - 1928
HPI: 65.79
Rank: 70
1885 - 1966
HPI: 65.78
Rank: 71
1872 - 1942
HPI: 65.71
Rank: 72
1861 - 1947
HPI: 65.66
Rank: 73
1875 - 1946
HPI: 65.62
Rank: 74
1865 - 1929
HPI: 65.55
Rank: 75
1780 - 1849
HPI: 65.40
Rank: 76
1743 - 1817
HPI: 65.36
Rank: 77
1754 - 1826
HPI: 65.34
Rank: 78
1927 - 2010
HPI: 65.31
Rank: 79
Among people born in 1861, Frederick Gowland Hopkins ranks 16. Before 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 26. Before 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.
1861 - 1922
HPI: 69.24
Rank: 10
1861 - 1938
HPI: 68.46
Rank: 11
1861 - 1947
HPI: 68.32
Rank: 12
1861 - 1942
HPI: 68.04
Rank: 13
1861 - 1947
HPI: 68.04
Rank: 14
1861 - 1925
HPI: 68.03
Rank: 15
1861 - 1947
HPI: 65.66
Rank: 16
1861 - 1944
HPI: 64.97
Rank: 17
1861 - 1951
HPI: 64.53
Rank: 18
1861 - 1896
HPI: 63.70
Rank: 19
1861 - 1944
HPI: 63.38
Rank: 20
1861 - 1914
HPI: 63.16
Rank: 21
1861 - 1929
HPI: 63.05
Rank: 22
1915 - 1947
HPI: 66.65
Rank: 20
1872 - 1947
HPI: 66.55
Rank: 21
1892 - 1947
HPI: 66.18
Rank: 22
1867 - 1947
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 23
1893 - 1947
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 24
1874 - 1947
HPI: 66.06
Rank: 25
1861 - 1947
HPI: 65.66
Rank: 26
1890 - 1947
HPI: 65.25
Rank: 27
1902 - 1947
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 28
1867 - 1947
HPI: 64.43
Rank: 29
1877 - 1947
HPI: 64.24
Rank: 30
1879 - 1947
HPI: 64.11
Rank: 31
1867 - 1947
HPI: 64.09
Rank: 32
Among people born in United Kingdom, Frederick Gowland Hopkins ranks 432 out of 7,765. Before 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).
1921 - 2007
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 426
1882 - 1920
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 427
1975 - Present
HPI: 65.71
Rank: 428
1930 - Present
HPI: 65.71
Rank: 429
1953 - Present
HPI: 65.70
Rank: 430
1830 - 1904
HPI: 65.67
Rank: 431
1861 - 1947
HPI: 65.66
Rank: 432
710 - 779
HPI: 65.58
Rank: 433
1925 - 2013
HPI: 65.57
Rank: 434
1886 - 1924
HPI: 65.56
Rank: 435
923 - 955
HPI: 65.56
Rank: 436
1960 - Present
HPI: 65.55
Rank: 437
1952 - 2011
HPI: 65.53
Rank: 438
Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Frederick Gowland Hopkins ranks 8. Before 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).
1778 - 1829
HPI: 71.43
Rank: 2
1852 - 1916
HPI: 68.58
Rank: 3
1918 - 2013
HPI: 68.29
Rank: 4
1877 - 1956
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 5
1832 - 1919
HPI: 67.56
Rank: 6
1877 - 1945
HPI: 67.08
Rank: 7
1861 - 1947
HPI: 65.66
Rank: 8
1883 - 1950
HPI: 64.17
Rank: 9
1837 - 1898
HPI: 63.85
Rank: 10
1875 - 1968
HPI: 63.84
Rank: 11
1886 - 1975
HPI: 63.82
Rank: 12
1842 - 1923
HPI: 63.72
Rank: 13
1876 - 1935
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 14