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estate to fund Hopkins's proposal, among the over 500 funding proposals submitted. By late 1919, Fletcher was negotiating for a considerable endowment that would allow Hopkins to create an institute solely devoted to biochemistry. The approval of this endowment, ultimately about 210,000 pounds, reversed the declining fortunes of Hopkins's research group, which had been suffering from lack of available academic positions, research space, and able students since
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were authored by Hopkins and other Cambridge biochemists. Hopkins's program of "general biochemistry" was unique in having a stable institutional base (unlike in Germany, where there were only a scattered handful of biochemistry professorships) but not being dependent on a medical school (unlike the
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Fletcher was a long-time friend and institutional ally of Frederick Gowland Hopkins, a pioneering biochemist who was trying to establish "general biochemistry" as a field distinct from either medical physiology or organic chemistry, more a part of biology than medicine. Fletcher lobbied for the Dunn
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scientists, unlike the large majority of American, British and German universities and medical schools. This may have helped Hopkins assemble such a strong group of researchers, since talented Jewish biochemists had few other options.
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and head of the new University of Cambridge Department of Biochemistry, and he appointed researchers in a range of specialized fields covering the whole of what he considered the proper, broad domain of biochemistry.
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Kohler, Robert E. "Walter Fletcher, F. G. Hopkins, and the Dunn Institute of Biochemistry: A Case Study in the Patronage of Science".
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The Dunn Institute under Hopkins had another unusual feature for the time: Hopkins did not discriminate against hiring
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Hopkins's school, housed in the Dunn Institute, was both productive and influential. Between World War I and
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Kohler, "Walter Fletcher, F. G. Hopkins, and the Dunn Institute of Biochemistry", pp. 330-332
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Kohler, "Walter Fletcher, F. G. Hopkins, and the Dunn Institute of Biochemistry", pp. 332-333
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In 1918, a trustee of the estate of Sir William Dunn approached a Cambridge biologist,
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From medical chemistry to biochemistry: The making of a biomedical discipline
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biochemistry and physiological chemistry departments in the United States).
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was a research institute endowed from the estate of
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Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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Sir William Dunn School of Pathology
52°11′53″N 0°07′26″E / 52.198°N 0.124°E / 52.198; 0.124
Cambridge University
Sir William Dunn
Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Walter Morley Fletcher
William Bate Hardy
Charles D. Seligman
Walter Morley Fletcher
Medical Research Council
World War I
Sir William Dunn Professor of Biochemistry
World War II
Biochemical Journal
Jewish
Dunn Human Nutrition Unit
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University of Cambridge
Chancellor
The Lord Sainsbury of Turville
Vice-Chancellor
Deborah Prentice
List of University of Cambridge people

Colleges
Christ's
Churchill

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