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...British Association for the Advancement of Science was concluding its sessions at Leicester last week as the American Chemical Society was beginning its in Chicago. Many of the subjects discussed before both bodies were, identical, notably the surveys of vitamins, hormones and enzymes. At Leicester, Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins devoted his B. A. A. S. presidential address to these vital entities. In Chicago they were the subject of a symposium in which A. C. S. President Arthur Becket Lamb partook, and at which foreign guests of the Society expounded-Munich's Dr. Richard Willstätter on enzymes, Zurich...
...Leicester, England. Yet the Leicester meeting presented many a useful fact and theory. Science v. Work. British scientists are awake to the charge that they are throwing men out of work by inventing too many new processes and machines. To answer critics became the duty of Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, biochemist, Nobel Prize Winner in Medicine, president of the Royal Society and president of the British Association. Sir Frederick tried no statistical answer or detailed argument. There are, said he, "eight to ten individuals in the world now engaged upon scientific investigations for every one so engaged 20 years...
...Sherrington-Adrian award gave Great Britain a score of six Nobel Prizes in Medicine, against the two for the U. S. Previous Britons: the late Sir Ronald Ross (1902), Archibald Vivian Hill (1922), John James Rickard Macleod (1923, while at Toronto), Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1929). The U. S. Nobelmen: French-born Alexis Carrel (1912), Austrian-born Karl Landsteiner...
Died. Dr. Christiaan Eijkman, 72, professor emeritus of the University of Utrecht, Nobel Prize winner in Medicine in 1929 (with Professor Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins of Cambridge University) for his discoveries about vitamins and the causes of beriberi; in Utrecht...
...Nobel Medicine Prizes, voted last month by the Caroline Institute of the University of Stockholm (TIME, Nov. 11), was awarded jointly to Professor Frederick Gowland Hopkins of Cambridge University and Professor Christian Eijkman of the University of Utrecht, for pioneer work in proving the existence, usefulness, necessity of vitamins in nutrition...