Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year:1929
Number:16 - 0
 
Nominee:
Name:Sir Frederick G Hopkins
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1861
Year, Death:1947
Profession:prof biochemistry
University:University of Cambridge
City:Cambridge
Country:UNITED KINGDOM (GB)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1929
 
Motivation:Discovery of "accessory factors" (now, vitamins), as essential nutritional components. Isolation of tryptophan and glutathion.
 
Nominator:
Name:Sir Edward Sharpey Schafer
Gender:M
Profession:prof physiology
City:Edinburgh
Country:UNITED KINGDOM (GB)
 
Comments: Evaluation included L. Mendel.