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Dorothy Hodgkin

Personal information
Birth date12 May 1910
Birth placeCairo, Egypt
Death date29 July 1994(age 84)
Death placeIlmington, Warwickshire, England, UK
NationalityUnited Kingdom
FieldsBiochemistry
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
Alma materSomerville College, Oxford
University of Cambridge
Doctoral advisorJohn Desmond Bernal
Doctoral studentsJudith Howard
Known forDevelopment of Protein crystallography
Determining the structure of Insulin
Notable awardsNobel Prize in Chemistry (1964)
Copley Medal (1976)

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Dorothy Mary Hodgkin OM, FRS (12 May 1910 - 29 July 1994), née Crowfoot, was a British chemist, credited with the development of Protein crystallography.

She advanced the technique of X-ray crystallography, a method used to determine the three dimensional structures of biomolecules. Among her most influential discoveries are the confirmation of the structure of penicillin that Ernst Boris Chain had previously surmised, and then the structure of vitamin B12, for which she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

In 1969, after 35 years of work and five years after winning the Nobel Prize, Hodgkin was able to decipher the structure of insulin. X-ray crystallography became a widely used tool and was critical in later determining the structures of many biological molecules such as DNA where knowledge of structure is critical to an understanding of function. She is regarded as one of the pioneer scientists in the field of X-ray crystallography studies of biomolecules.

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Hidden Glory: Dorothy Hodgkin in her own words - Media Newswire (press release) Tweet this news
Media Newswire (press release)--This year marks the centenary of -Dorothy Hodgkin- (1910-1994), the only British woman scientist ever to have won the Nobel prize. Hodgkin was also Chancellor ... - Date : Wed, 27 Oct 2010 13:18:35 GMT+00:00
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El Correo Gallego--En Química, Yonath es la cuarta que lo consigue, 45 años después de que lo lograse -Dorothy- Crowfoot -Hodgkin-, que dio a su vez continuidad a la estela de ... - Date : Sat, 23 Oct 2010 23:42:13 GMT+00:00
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El Confidencial---...- Neurocientífica investigadora de la Royal Society -Dorothy Hodgkin- en el Instituto de Neurociencia Cognitiva del University College de Londres… ... - Date : Sat, 06 Nov 2010 05:11:56 GMT+00:00
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Medscape--The women had been treated for leukemia, -Hodgkin's- disease, non--Hodgkin- lymphoma, breast cancer, and gastrointestinal cancers. Women were asked to rate the ... - Date : Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:55:04 GMT+00:00
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WhatsOnStage.com--One Woman show Hidden Glory reveals the life and work of one of Britain's most eminent scientists: the Nobel-prize winning chemist -Dorothy Hodgkin-. ... - Date : Thu, 30 Sep 2010 02:14:41 GMT+00:00
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ABH News--Two of these four women are Marie Curie and -Dorothy- Crowfoot -Hodgkin-, who were awarded with unshared Chemistry Prizes. Frederick Sanger has received the ... - Date : Wed, 06 Oct 2010 11:23:09 GMT+00:00
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CBS New York--The fundraiser was to benefit James Shaljian, 45, who suffers from -Hodgkin's- lymphoma. Shaljian has lived apart from his family for nearly a year, ... - Date : Sat, 02 Oct 2010 11:59:16 GMT+00:00
Chemie-Nobelpreis: Auszeichnung für Koryphäen der Katalyse - FOCUS Online Tweet this news
FOCUS Online--Zuletzt wurde die Britin -Dorothy- Crowfoot -Hodgkin- im Jahr 1964 ausgezeichnet. Die erste Frau, die einen Nobelpreis für Chemie bekam, war Marie Curie im Jahr ... - Date : Wed, 06 Oct 2010 10:20:39 GMT+00:00
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Lompoc Record--The live auction began with a presentation from Melinda Marchiano, 16, a cancer survivor from Nipomo, about her treatment for -Hodgkin's- lymphoma at Cottage ... - Date : Tue, 28 Sep 2010 07:18:29 GMT+00:00
Publik Inggris Tidak Kenal Ilmuwan Perempuan - Koran Tempo (Berlangganan) Tweet this news
Koran Tempo (Berlangganan)--Hanya ada 18 persen responden yang mengenal -Dorothy Hodgkin- sebagai pencipta struktur insulin. Lalu, 6 persen yang tahu bahwa Jocelyn Bell Burnell sebagai ... - Date : Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:40:49 GMT+00:00

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Preceded by
The Duke of Beaufort
Chancellor of the University of Bristol
1970-1988
Succeeded by
Sir Jeremy Morse

Nobel Laureates in Chemistry

Edwin McMillan / Glenn T. Seaborg (1951) * Archer Martin / Richard Synge (1952) * Hermann Staudinger (1953) * Linus Pauling (1954) * Vincent du Vigneaud (1955) * Cyril Hinshelwood / Nikolay Semyonov (1956) * Alexander Todd (1957) * Frederick Sanger (1958) * Jaroslav Heyrovský (1959) * Willard Libby (1960) * Melvin Calvin (1961) * Max Perutz / John Kendrew (1962) * Karl Ziegler / Giulio Natta (1963) * Dorothy Hodgkin (1964) * Robert Woodward (1965) * Robert S. Mulliken (1966) * Manfred Eigen / Ronald Norrish / George Porter (1967) * Lars Onsager (1968) * Derek Barton / Odd Hassel (1969) * Luis Federico Leloir (1970) * Gerhard Herzberg (1971) * Christian B. Anfinsen / Stanford Moore / William Stein (1972) * E.O.Fischer / Geoffrey Wilkinson (1973) * Paul Flory (1974) * John Cornforth / Vladimir Prelog (1975)



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