Credit: ©Godfrey Argent Studio
    Image number: RS.20332

    Portrait of Frederick Gowland Hopkins

    Date
    1932
    Sitter
    Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861 - 1947, British) , Biochemist
    Creator
    Walter Stoneman (1876 - 1958, British) , Photographer
    Creator - Organisation
    J. Russell & Sons, Photographer
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    Material
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 150mm
    width (print): 105mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Frederick Gowland Hopkins, looking directly out at the camera, wearing a black suit and tie, and a white shirt.

    Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861-1947), British biochemist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1905, served as Vice-President between 1928-1930, and as its President between 1930-1935. He was awarded the Society’s Royal Medal, 1918, Copley Medal, 1926, and was the recipient of the Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine) in 1929 for ‘his discovery of the growth-stimulating vitamins’.
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