Published “Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis” in The Lancet — cited 14,025 times.
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Frederick 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. He also discovered the amino acid tryptophan, in 1901. He was President of the Royal Society from 1930 to 1935.
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science · English biochemist (1861–1947) · biochemist · physician · university teacher · chemist · also Frederick Hopkins, Frederick Gowland Hopkins, Sir Frederick Hopkins, Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, F. G. Hopkins, Hopkins
Born 20 June 1861 · Died 16 May 1947 · Q233976
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2017· 1 entry
Published “GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral” in Physical Review Letters — cited 8,280 times.
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2016· 1 entry
Published “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger” in Physical Review Letters — cited 11,729 times.
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2014· 1 entry
Published “Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM)” in European Business Review — cited 8,493 times.
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2009· 1 entry
Published “Progressive Statistics for Studies in Sports Medicine and Exercise Science” in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise — cited 7,343 times.
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1947· 1 entry
Died 1947-05-16.
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1945· 1 entry
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1945).
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1937· 1 entry
Awarded Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi (1937).
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1934· 1 entry
Won Albert Medal (1934).
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1933· 1 entry
Served as president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
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1930· 1 entry
Career landmark: President of the Royal Society (1930–1935).
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1929· 4 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for his discovery of the growth-stimulating vitamins.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1929).
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With Christiaan Eijkman, for the discovery of vitamins
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Concluded that it was a tripeptide of glutamic acid, cysteine and glycine
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1926· 1 entry
Won Copley Medal (1926).
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1921· 1 entry
Of glutathione extracted from various animal tissues
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1918· 2 entries
Won Royal Medal (1918).
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The Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh in 1922, and the Copley Medal of the Royal Society in 1926
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1915· 2 entries
Won Baly Medal (1915).
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Won Croonian Medal and Lecture (1915).
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1914· 1 entry
Was elected to the Chair of Biochemistry at Cambridge University, thus becoming the first Professor in that discipline at Cambridge
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1912· 1 entry
Hopkins published the work for which he is best known, demonstrating in a series of animal feeding experiments that diets consisting of pure proteins, carbohydrates, fats, minerals, and water fail to support animal growt
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1910· 1 entry
Became a Fellow of Trinity College, and an Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel College
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1907· 1 entry
With Sir Walter Morley Fletcher of the connection between lactic acid and muscle contraction was one of the central achievements of his work on the biochemistry of the cell
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1905· 1 entry
As a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), Great Britain's most prestigious scientific organisation; his knighthood by King George V in 1925; and the award in 1935 of the Order of Merit, Great Britain's most exclusive civil
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1898· 2 entries
While attending a meeting of the Physiological Society, he was invited by Sir Michael Foster to join the Physiological Laboratory in Cambridge to investigate the chemical aspects of physiology
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Married Jessie Anne Stephens (1861–1937); they had one son and two daughters, the younger of whom, Jacquetta Hawkes, became a prominent archaeologist and married the author J
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1861· 1 entry
Born 1861-06-20.
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