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The Department of Biochemistry is a member of the School of Biological Sciences and is one of the largest departments in Cambridge – around 400 research and support staff. The portrait of Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins is highly prized to the department, as it was Hopkins who had the foresight to establish the Department of Biochemistry in 1914. Hopkins, together with Christiaan Eijkman, went on to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1929 for the discovery of vitamins. Hopkins spent most of his career at Cambridge University (1898–1943). He was knighted in 1925 and received many other honours, including the presidency of the Royal Society (1930) and the Order of Merit (1935).
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