Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861-1947)
Awarded the Prize “for his discovery of the growth-stimulating vitamins.”British biochemist. Hopkins was born on June 30, 1861 at Eastbourne, England. After attending the City of London School, he was apprenticed as a chemist in a commercial laboratory. In 1881 he went to the Royal School of Mines and University College, London, and was offered a post at Guy’s Hospital. He was qualified in medicine in 1894. In 1898 he moved to Cambridge and remained there. Hopkins died in Cambridge on May 16, 1947.