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Frederick Hopkins
Frederick Hopkins · John Palmer Clarke (active 1890-1909), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Person

Frederick Hopkins

1861 – 1947 · aged 86

English biochemist

Born
20 Jun 1861 · Eastbourne
Died
16 May 1947 · Cambridge
Part ofAgnosticism490 BCE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 99 years
  1. 20 Jun 1861BornBorn in Eastbourne
  2. 1915AwardBaly Medal
  3. 1915AwardCroonian Medal and Lecture
  4. 1918AwardRoyal Medal
  5. 1926AwardCopley Medal
  6. 1929AwardNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  7. 1930 – 1935RolePresident of the Royal Society
  8. 1934AwardAlbert Medal
  9. 1937AwardHonorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi
  10. 1945AwardDoctor honoris causa from the University of Paris
  11. 16 May 1947DiedDied in Cambridge

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1861 – 1947).

  1. 1870 – 1871Franco-Prussian War
  2. 18961896 Summer Olympics
  3. 1898Spanish–American War
  4. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  5. 1914 – 1918World War I
  6. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  7. 1917Balfour Declaration
  8. 1917February Revolution
  9. 1917October Revolution
  10. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  11. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  12. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  13. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  14. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  15. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  16. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  17. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  18. 1938Munich Agreement
  19. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  20. 1939 – 1945World War II
  21. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  22. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  23. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  24. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  25. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  26. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  27. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials

Biography

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. He was President of the Royal Society from 1930 to 1935.

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