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“It is an old saying, abundantly justified, that where sciences meet there growth occurs. It is true moreover to say that in scientific borderlands not only are facts gathered that [are] often new in kind, but it is in these regions that wholly new concepts arise. It is my own faith that just as the older biology from its faithful studies of external forms provided a new concept in the doctrine of evolution, so the new biology is yet fated to furnish entirely new fundamental concepts of science, at which physics and chemistry when concerned with the non-living alone could never arrive.”

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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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