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Dorothy Hodgkin - Wikipedia. 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]
May 9, 2024 · 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.
“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.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1964 was awarded to Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin "for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances"
In the late 1930s Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910–1994) became a leading practitioner of the use of X-ray crystallography in determining the three-dimensional structure of complex organic molecules.
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.
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.
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.
Jul 29, 1994 · Dorothy Hodgkin was a British chemist who won the Nobel prize in Chemistry in 1964 for her pioneering work in protein crystallography, revealing how life functioned at a fundamental level ...
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.
