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“My main thesis will be that in the study of the intermediate processes of metabolism we have to deal not with complex substances which elude ordinary chemical methods, but with the simple substances undergoing comprehensible reactions... I intend also to emphasise the fact that it is not alone with the separation and identification of products from the animal that our present studies deal; but with their reactions in the body; with the dynamic side of biochemical phenomena.”

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Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Frederick Gowland Hopkins

Frederick Gowland Hopkins was a British biochemist renowned for his contributions to nutrition and biochemistry. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1932 for his discovery of vitamins. more

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