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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.
Mar 13, 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.
Hodgkin’s most significant scientific contributions were the determination of the structures of penicillin, insulin, and vitamin B 12. In 1964 she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances.”
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Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin: Captured by Crystals. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin discovered the structure of penicillin and insulin during World War II, becoming the third woman to win a Nobel Prize. March 16, 2022. In 1942, a scientist in Oxford received a challenge from a colleague—to identify the chemical and physical structure of penicillin, the ...
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 ...
Nov 1, 2003 · Dorothy Hodgkin and her contributions to biochemistry. Judith A. K. Howard. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 4 , 891–896 ( 2003) Cite this article. 1887 Accesses. 15 Citations. 3...
