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Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin OM FRS HonFRSC [10] [11] (née Crowfoot; 12 May 1910 – 29 July 1994) was a Nobel Prize -winning English chemist who advanced the technique of X-ray crystallography to determine the structure of biomolecules, which became essential for structural biology. [10] [12]
Dorothy Hodgkin (born May 12, 1910, Cairo, Egypt—died July 29, 1994, Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire, England) was an English chemist whose determination of the structure of penicillin and vitamin B 12 brought her the 1964 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
Biographical. Dorothy Crowfoot was born in Cairo on May 12th, 1910 where her father, John Winter Crowfoot, was working in the Egyptian Education Service. He moved soon afterwards to the Sudan, where he later became both Director of Education and of Antiquities; Dorothy visited the Sudan as a girl in 1923, and acquired a strong affection for the ...
“Captured for life by chemistry and by crystals,” as she described it, Dorothy Hodgkin turned a childhood interest in crystals into the ground-breaking use of X-ray crystallography to “see” the molecules of penicillin, vitamin B12 and insulin.
Jul 29, 1994 · Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1964. Born: 12 May 1910, Cairo, Egypt. Died: 29 July 1994, Shipston-on-Stour, United Kingdom. Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Oxford, Royal Society, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Discover the life and achievements of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, the Nobel laureate who deciphered the molecular structures of vital substances.
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was born in 1910, in Cairo, Egypt. Her mother, Molly, and father, John Crowfoot, had met in Lincoln, England, and had moved to North Africa owing to John's participation in the British administration of Egypt as a civil servant in the Department of Education.
