Frederick Gowland Hopkins

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University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom 
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biochemistry
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1861-1947.
http://www.biochemj.org/bj/042/0161/0420161_b2.pdf
http://www.scs.illinois.edu/~mainzv/Web_Genealogy/Info/hopkinsfg.pdf
Isolated and identified structure of tryptophan. Isolated and named glutathione. Discovered xanthine oxidase.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1929 was divided equally between Christiaan Eijkman for his discovery of the antineuritic vitamin and Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins for his discovery of the growth-stimulating vitamins.

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Thomas Stevenson research assistant 1888 University of London
Michael Foster research scientist 1898-1907 Cambridge (Neurotree)

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John Tileston Edsall research assistant 1924-1926 Cambridge
Eric Mitchell Crook grad student (Plant Biology Tree)
Marjory Stephenson grad student Cambridge
Leslie Julius Harris grad student 1923 Cambridge
Juda Hirsch Quastel grad student 1924 Cambridge
Vincent Brian Wigglesworth grad student 1922-1924 Cambridge
Malcolm Dixon grad student 1925 Cambridge
Douglas Creese Harrison grad student 1925 Cambridge
J. Murray Luck grad student 1925 Cambridge
Robert Hill grad student 1922-1926 Cambridge (Plant Biology Tree)
Howard Walter Florey grad student 1927 Cambridge
Henry A. Murray grad student 1928 Cambridge (Neurotree)
William J. Dann grad student 1930 Cambridge
Dorothy Mary Moyle Needham grad student 1930 Cambridge
Allan Elliott grad student 1927-1933 Cambridge
Ernest Baldwin grad student 1935 Cambridge
Ernst Boris Chain grad student 1933-1935 Cambridge
Kamala Sohonie grad student 1939 Cambridge
Conrad (Arnold) Elvehjem post-doc Cambridge
Joseph Needham post-doc Cambridge
Charles Glen King post-doc 1929 Cambridge
Kshitish Chandra Sen post-doc 1931 Cambridge
Biresh Chandra Guha post-doc 1932 Cambridge
Luis F. Leloir post-doc 1936-1937 Cambridge
Albert von Szent-Györgyi research scientist 1927 Cambridge
Norman Wingate (Bill) Pirie research scientist 1929-1934 Cambridge
David R. Goddard research scientist 1950-1951 Cambridge (Plant Biology Tree)
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HOPKINS FG, MORGAN EJ. (1948) Studies on glyoxalase; a new factor. The Biochemical Journal. 42: 23-7
Hopkins FG, Morgan EJ. (1948) Studies on glyoxalase: 1. A new factor. The Biochemical Journal. 42: 23-7
Hopkins FG, Ellison R. (1947) Proceedings of the society of public analysts and other analytical chemists The Analyst. 72: 229a
Hopkins FG, Leader VR. (1945) On refection in rats and on the nature of the growth promoted by the addition of small quantities of milk to vitamin-free diets. The Journal of Hygiene. 44: 149-57
Hopkins FG, Morgan EJ. (1945) On the distribution of glyoxalase and glutathione. The Biochemical Journal. 39: 320-4
Barcroft J, Davidson S, Hopkins FG, et al. (1943) Minimum human requirements and the Beveridge report [8] Nature. 151: 422
Barcroft J, Davidson S, Hopkins FG, et al. (1943) FOOD STANDARDS The Lancet. 241: 476
Hopkins FG, Morgan EJ. (1943) Appearance of glutathione during the early stages of the germination of seeds Nature. 152: 288-290
Hopkins FG. (1940) Nutrition in war time. The Eugenics Review. 32: 69-70
Hopkins FG. (1939) The Laboratory in Cancer Research. British Medical Journal. 2: 1-5
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