Dorothy Hodgkin
12 May 1910 – 29 July 1994
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was a British chemist who advanced the technique of X-ray crystallography to determine the three-dimensional structures of biomolecules. She was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determining the structures of important biochemical substances including penicillin and vitamin B12.
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Life events
Dorothy Mary Crowfoot was born in Cairo, Egypt, to British parents.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe studied at Somerville College, University of Oxford.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe earned her PhD at the University of Cambridge working with J. D. Bernal on crystallography.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe used X-ray crystallography to solve the molecular structure of penicillin.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe solved the complex structure of vitamin B12, a major crystallographic achievement.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe received the prize for determining the structures of important biochemical substances by X-ray techniques.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe completed the crystallographic structure of insulin after decades of work.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe died following a stroke at her home in Warwickshire, England.
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