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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, who addressed the "Various Aspects of Biology" section of the Biological Sciences symposium on "The Influence of Chemical Thought on Biology," won the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 1929. He is Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge, and is recognized as one of the very top rank of biochemists throughout the world...
...effects of different combinations of diet, the absence or presence of milk along with other foods, whether food is cooked or raw, and other factors enabled him to draw certain conclusions in regard to developing the theory of vitamins. He has also done very important work in collaboration with Sir Walter Fletcher on the chemical changes which accompany muscular contraction.SIR FREDERICK GOWLAND HOPKINS Rate...
...Adams 1740, as well as the one of John Hancock lent by the City of Boston. Hancock was treasurer of the College from 1773-1779 while being engaged in the many patriotic duties for which he is better known. Other pictures are of Cotton and Increase Mather, of Sir Henry Vane, of Governor John Endecott, and of Jeremiah Dummer, Jr. The only modern note injected into the exhibition is the famous Charles Hopkinson life portrait of the late Charles W. Eliot...
...without regard to reality. But: "It may happen that the mathematician will pass on a theorem to the physicist, who uses it and passes it on to the chemist, who in turn uses it and passes it on to the biologist. Ultimately, the cure of a disease may result. . . . Sir Isaac Newton to a large extent worked on calculus to explain some phases of astronomy, but his findings now-more than 250 years later-are applied to calculating width of a brake lining to stop a motor car of a certain size at a certain speed at a given time...
...Physicists Arthur Holly Compton and Robert Andrews Millikan, Physiologist Karl Landsteiner of the U. S.; Chemists Hans Fischer and Friedrich Bergius, Physiologist Hans Spemann, Biologist Otto Warburg of Germany: Physiologists Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins and Edgar Douglas Adrian of England: Centrifugist Theodor Svedberg of Sweden; Physiologist August Krogh of Denmark...