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Sportscience History Makers - Hopkins (806 words) |
 | Hopkin's breakthrough discovery isolated and identified the structure of the amino acid tryptophan, for which he shared the 1929 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology. |
| Hopkins both produced pioneering studies in nutritional biochemistry and collaborated with physiologist Walter Morley Fletcher (mentor to future Nobel Laurette A.V. Hill) to study muscle chemistry. |
| Hopkins won honors -- first professor of biochemistry at Cambridge; knighthood (1925); Copley Medal of the Royal Society (1926); President of the Royal Society (1931); Order of Merit (1935); highest civilian prize -- and actively researched until his retirement, an admirable exemplar for Exercise Nutrition (Baldwin, 1972; Needham and Baldwin, 1949). |
| Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, biochemical pioneer, discoverer of vitamins. (942 words) |
| Frederick Gowland Hopkins was born in the English seaside town of Eastbourne, in 1861. |
| Although a mediocre teacher in introductory classes, Hopkins was inspiring at the advanced level, and by the time he died seventy-five of his former students were Professors of Biochemistry throughout the world. |
| Although his Nobel Prize in 1929 was "for his discovery of the growth-stimulating vitamins", for Hopkins, nutritional studies were secondary to his research on cellular metabolism: the very complex sequence of chemical reactions by which living cells extract energy from food molecules. |
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