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Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin was born in Cairo, Egypt, on 12 May 1920. 1 Her parents were archaeologists - her father was an educational administrator and her mother a pioneer in the study of archaeological textiles and a botanist. 2. Hodgkin spent most of her early years travelling between England and Egypt (and later Sudan), where her ...
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1964. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I must first of all with all my heart thank you for the very great honour that you have done me and the great happiness that you have conferred upon me and my family today.
Discover the life and achievements of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, the Nobel laureate who deciphered the molecular structures of vital substances.
While the Hodgkin biography is a magnificent success in recapitulating Dorothy's life, there are a few minor flaws. The author seems unaware that the many English terms she uses are not going to ...
Nov 6, 2018 · Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin may be the most famous British scientist of whom most people have never heard. As such, she would be a very appropriate face for the new £50 note, on which the Bank of ...
Hodgkin, Dorothy (1910–1994)English biochemist, Nobel laureate, and peace activist who is best known for her discovery of the structures of penicillin and vitamin B-12. Born Dorothy Mary Crowfoot on May 12, 1910, in Cairo, Egypt; died on July 29, 1994, at her home in Shipstonon-Stour, in Warwickshire county in central England, after suffering ...
Hodgkin 1942-től 1949-ig a penicillin szerkezetének elemzésén elmélkedett. 1948-ban társaival elkészítette az első röntgenfelvételt a B12-vitaminról, amely a legbonyolultabb nem fehérje jellegű vegyületek egyike, végül sikerült teljesen meghatározniuk a molekula atomi szerkezetét.
