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Hopkins was born in Eastbourne in Sussex on June 20 1861, and studied at the University Of London and the medical school at Guy's Hospital ( King's College London ). He became biochemistry professor at Cambridge University in 1914, where his students included neurochemistry pioneer Judah Hirsch Quastel . He was awarded the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (together with Christiaan Eijkman) for his discovery that certain trace substances -- now known as '' Vitamin s'' -- are essential for the maintenance of good health. He also discovered that Muscle contraction can lead to the accumulation of Lactic Acid . Hopkins was Knighted in 1925 . REFERENCE
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