Born 20 Jun 1861; died 16 May 1947 at age 85.

#English #biochemist who shared (with Christiaan Eijkman) the 1929 #NobelPrize for Physiology or #Medicine for #discovery of #essential #nutrientfactors, now known as #vitamins, needed in animal #diets to maintain #health.

#Hopkins fed young rats on a basic diet which, in addition to the #necessary salts, contained a carefully purified #mixture of lard, #starch, and #casein (the most abundant #protein in milk). After some time the animals ceased to grow.

Then Hopkins demonstrated that it was only necessary to add a very small daily amount of milk, 2 - 3 cc for each animal, for growth to recommence. Thus the #sufficiency of food consumed without the added milk could be fully utilized by the body only when the #growth-promoting influence of the #milk was present.

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