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Frederick Gowland Hopkins, OM, PRS (Eastbourne, 20 de junho de 1861 – Cambridge, 16 de maio de 1947), foi um bioquímico britânico. Descobriu e isolou o tripéptido glutatião, formado pelos aminoácidos ácido glutâmico, cisteína e glicina.
Learn about the life and achievements of Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, an English biochemist who discovered vitamins and glutathione. He was a Nobel laureate, a Royal Society president, and a pioneer of biochemistry education.
Learn about the life and achievements of Sir Frederick Hopkins, who discovered the vitamin B complex and won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1929. Find out his biography, scientific contributions, awards, and legacy.
Learn about the British biochemist who won the Nobel Prize for discovering vitamins and essential amino acids. Find out his achievements, discoveries, and honours in this comprehensive article.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Fellow of the College and winner of the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 1929 for the discovery of vitamins. Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins has been described as 'the father of British biochemistry, and perhaps the last of our great pioneers of science'.
Frederick Gowland Hopkins. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1929 for his discovery of the growth-stimulating vitamins, shared with Christiaan Eijkman. First Professor of Biochemistry at Cambridge, elected 1914.
In 1921 his professorship was endowed by Sir William Dunn and he became head of the associated Sir William Dunn Institute. The same year was remarkable for yet another important scientific achievement by Hopkins — the isolation of glutathione.
