GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins OM FRS (20 June 1861 – 16 May 1947) was an English biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1929, with Christiaan Eijkman, for the discovery of vitamins, even though Casimir Funk, a Polish biochemist, is widely credited with discovering vitamins.

Detailed explanation-2: -Frederick Gowland Hopkins was born on June 20, 1861, at Eastbourne, England. His father, a bookseller in Bishopsgate Street, London, was much interested in science, but he died when Gowland was an infant.

Detailed explanation-3: -This was first indication of vitamin concept. 1906-Sir Frederick Gowl and Hopkins also discovered that certain food factors were important to health. 1912-Cashmir Funk named the special nutritional parts of food as a “vitamin". Hopkins and Funk formulated the vitamin hypothesis of deficiency disease.