Frederick Gowland Hopkins Facts
Frederick Gowland Hopkins Facts
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| Hopkins was born in Eastbourne, England. |
| In 1871 Hopkins he went to the London School where he received a first-class in chemistry in 1874 and was later awarded a prize for science. |
| At the age of 17 he published a paper on the bombardier beetle in The Entomologist. |
| After a brief stint as an insurance clerk, Hopkins took a course in chemistry at the Royal School of Mines. |
| His high marks on the Associateship Examination of the Institute of Chemistry landed him a job as an assistant to a Home Office Analyst. |
| In returned to school and completed his B.Sc. degree. |
| In 1888 he became a medical student at Guy's Hospital where he received the Sir William Gull Studentship, a Gold Medal for Chemistry and Honours in Materia Medica. |
| In 1894 he graduated in medicine and taught for four years at Guy's Hospital and was for two years in charge of the Chemical Department of the Clinical Research Association. |
| In 1898 he was offered a position at Cambridge and in 1914 became the Chair of Biochemistry at Cambridge. |
| In 1921 he isolated glutathione and later discovered xanthine oxidase. |
| In 1929 he shared the Nobel Prize with Christiaan Elijkman for demonstrating that beriberi could be prevented by the consumption of brown rice rather than white rice. |
| In 1925 he was knighted for his contributions to chemistry and in 1935 he received the Order of Merit. |
| In 1918 he was awarded the Royal Medal of the Royal Society of London and from 1930 to 1935 he was its president. |
| He died at the age of 86. |
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