Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins

Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins was an English biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1929, with Christiaan Eijkman, for the discovery of vitamins, even though Casimir Funk, a Polish biochemist, is widely credited with discovering vitamins.

He also discovered the amino acid tryptophan, in 1901. He was President of the Royal Society from 1930 to 1935. Hopkins was born on June 20, 1861 in Eastbourne, Sussex, United Kingdom and educated at the City of London School completing his further study with the University of London External Programme and the medical school at Guy's Hospital which is now part of King's College London School of Medicine.