Frederick gowland hopkins biography of abraham lincoln

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'.

Assistance to the Corporation of Lincoln in its efforts to control a serious epidemic of typhoid fever.

Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins (20 June – 16 May ) was an English biochemist.

Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins was an English biochemist who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Christiaan Eijkman.

Frederick Hopkins was a talented student in his school days.

Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins.

His way to the frontiers of knowledge was not easy: on leaving school he spent six months in an insurance office before escaping to the laboratory of an analytical chemist, where articled pupils learned their trade as unpaid assistants.

An unexpected legacy enabled him to study for a professional examination which gained him a place in the laboratory at Guy's Hospital, and by the age of twenty-seven he had saved enough to enrol as a medical student. The ordinary medical curriculum of the day was his only regular academic training.

After qualifying in 1894 he worked on the staff of the physiology department at Guy's until 1898, when he was persuaded to come to Cambridg