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Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin OM FRS HonFRSC (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.. Among her most influential discoveries are the confirmation of the structure of penicillin as previously surmised by Edward Abraham and Ernst Boris Chain; and mapping the structure of vitamin B 12, for which in 1964 she ...
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. Education and marriage. Dorothy Crowfoot was the eldest of four sisters whose parents, John and Grace Mary Crowfoot, worked in North Africa and the Middle East in colonial administration and later as archaeologists.
“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. Her work not only allowed researchers to better understand and manufacture life-saving substances, it also made crystallography an indispensable scientific tool.
Dorothy Hodgkin took part in the meetings in 1946 which led to the foundation of the International Union of Crystallography and she has visited for scientific purposes many countries, including China, the USA and the USSR. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1947, a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences in 1956, and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Boston) in 1958. ...
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin's life as a researcher began when she received a chemistry book containing experiments with crystals as a child. After studying at Oxford University and despite graduating with good grades, as a woman, she had difficulty finding work. Finally, J.D. Bernal of Cambridge University, a pioneer of modern molecular biology, gave her a chance. After receiving her PhD from Cambridge University, Crowfoot Hodgkin returned to Oxford University in 1934 where she remained for the ...
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was honored on this postage stamp issued in the United Kingdom. In the 19th century and well into the 20th century, chemists like Emil Fischer conducted long, tedious chemical reactions and degradations to gain clues about the three-dimensional structures of molecules and then performed syntheses to test their deductions.
by Ryan Hoffman 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. Following the outbreak of World War I, Hodgkin was relocated to England. She spent most of her childhood in Norfolk, where she was permitted to join the boys in...
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Born Cairo, Egypt 12 May 1910 Died Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire, England 29 July 1994. During her undergraduate research at Oxford in 1931-1932, working with H.M. Powell on the structure of thallium dialkyl halides, Dorothy Hodgkin was one of the first people to use X-ray crystallography to study the structure of an organic compound. Her doctoral research with J.D. Bernal at Cambridge concentrated on biological molecules, including sterols (the subject of her ...
Jul 29, 1994 · Dorothy Hodgkin was a British chemist whose work opened a door to life’s invisible realm at the atomic level. She mixed a sprinkling of biology and a dose of hard physics in with her chosen ...
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin. 1910 - 1994 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin is the only British woman to have received the Nobel Prize for science. She was awarded the prize for Chemistry in 1964, in recognition of her work of establishing the structures of vitamin B12 and penicillin. ...
