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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.
Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin OM FRS HonFRSC [9][10] (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. [9][11]
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.
Celebrate the trailblazing chemist Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin - the only British woman scientist to win a Nobel prize. She was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for solving the atomic...
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 discovered the structure of penicillin and insulin during World War II, becoming the third woman to win a Nobel Prize. March 16, 2022.
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.
