Frederick Gowland Hopkins

Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins OM FRS
Born	(1861-06-20)20 June 1861 Eastbourne, Sussex, England
Died	16 May 1947(1947-05-16) (aged 85) Cambridge, England
Education	City of London School, Guy's Hospital
Known for	Vitamins, tryptophan, glutathione
Spouse	Jessie Anne Stephens
Children	3, including Jacquetta Hawkes
Relatives	J. B. Priestley (son-in-law)
Awards	Royal Medal (1918) Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh (1922) Copley Medal (1926) Nobel Prize (1929) Albert Medal (1934) Order of Merit (1935)
Scientific career
Fields	Biochemistry
Institutions	University of Cambridge
Academic advisors	Thomas Stevenson Sir Michael Foster
Doctoral students	Judah Hirsch Quastel Malcolm Dixon Antoinette Pirie
Other notable students	J.B.S. Haldane Albert Szent-Györgyi,[1] Joseph Needham

Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins OM FRS^[2] (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. He was President of the Royal Society from 1930 to 1935.^[3]