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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.
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.
Learn about the life and achievements of Dorothy Hodgkin, who used X-ray techniques to determine the structures of penicillin, insulin, and vitamin B12. She was the third woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and a prominent advocate for peace and human rights.
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Learn about the life and achievements of Dorothy Hodgkin, a pioneer of X-ray crystallography and the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Discover how she studied penicillin, vitamin B-12, insulin, and DNA, and how she overcame personal and political challenges.
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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. 1894 Accesses. 15 Citations. 3...
Learn about the life and achievements of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, the only British woman to win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. She studied and established the structures of vitamin B12 and penicillin using x-ray crystallography at Oxford.
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