Multiple choice general knowledge

Which British biochemist first found the presence of vitamins in fresh food?

  1. D. Richard Dawkins

  2. M. John Maynard Smith

  3. Desmond Morris

  4. Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
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Explanation

Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins discovered the presence of vitamins in fresh foods in 1906, identifying that certain factors in food were essential for health. He won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1929 for this work, which laid the foundation for modern nutritional science. The other options (Dawkins, Maynard Smith, Desmond Morris) were evolutionary biologists or ethologists, not vitamin researchers.

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