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Dorothy Hodgkin was a British chemist who made groundbreaking discoveries about the structure of important biological molecules. Her work helped scientists understand how medicines and nutrients function at the molecular level, earning her recognition as one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century.
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- Born
- 1910
- Died
- 1994
- Works
- 5
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- Structural studies on molecules of biological interest
- Birkbeck, science and history
- Kathleen Lonsdale
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- Birkbeck, science and history
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- A quantitative description of membrane current and its application to conduction and excitation in nerve
· 1952 · cited 17,619x
- <i>Gaia</i> Data Release 2
· 2018 · cited 7,368x
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Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin (née Crowfoot; 12 May 1910 – 29 July 1994) was an English chemist who advanced the technique of X-ray crystallography to determine the structure of biomolecules, which became essential for structural biology. She received the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and is the only British woman scientist to have been awarded a Nobel Prize.
Among her most influential discoveries are the confirmation of the structure of penicillin as previously surmised by Edward Abraham and Ernst Boris Chain; and mapping the structure of vitamin B12, for which in 1964 she became the third woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Hodgkin also elucidated the structure of insulin in 1969 after 35 years of work.
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1910 births1994 deaths20th-century American women scientists20th-century British women biologists20th-century English biologists20th-century English chemists20th-century English physicists20th-century English women physicists20th-century QuakersAlumni of Newnham College, CambridgeAlumni of Somerville College, OxfordAmerican fellows of the Royal Society