About us About the Department Contact us How to find us Disabled access Job opportunities Wellbeing, Inclusion, Diversity, Equality Alumni Support us 1924 – 2024: Biochemistry centenary travel fund History of the Department Establishing the Department Biochemistry: a new science The coming of Hopkins Hopkins arrives in Cambridge The foundations of metabolism Expansion after World War I Teaching biochemistry A new School of Biochemistry Haldane and the Sex Viri Low Temperature Research Station The Dunn Institute The Sir William Dunn Institute The Colman Library Reflections on the early years The legacy of Hopkins Major events since 1945 Commemorating Hopkins Biographies Nobel Prizes Photographic archive Pioneering Cambridge Women: the biochemists, Marjory Stephenson FRS and Dorothy Moyle Needham FRS Establishing the Department This first section of the history of the Department of Biochemistry covers the period from the late nineteenth century until the opening of the Sir William Dunn Institute, now known as the Hopkins Building, in 1924. Related links History of the University