Dorothy Hodgkin

Also known as Dorothy Mary Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot, Dorothy Crowfoot, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin

British chemist

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Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was born on 1910-05-12 and died on 1994-07-29. She received one Nobel Prize.

Her work is recognized in several collections. These include the Royal Society collection, the Nobel Laureates collection, and the Nobel Chemistry collection. She is also recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection and the Copley Medal collection.

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Dorothy Hodgkin appears in Vinony's Nobel Prize in Chemistry collection — one of 198 entries. It also appears in Copley Medal.

Vinony's link graph records 542 inbound references to Dorothy Hodgkin, and connects out to James Watson, Cyril Norman Hinshelwood and Robert Robinson.

It is catalogued under topics including 1910 births, 1994 deaths and 20th-century American women scientists.

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry1964
“for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Mary
Gender: female
Citizenship: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Place of birth: Cairo
Place of death: Ilmington
Mother: Grace Mary Hood Crowfoot
Occupation: physicist
Educated at: University of Oxford
Employer: University of Cambridge
Languages spoken: English language
Doctoral advisor: John Desmond Bernal
Doctoral student: David Sayre
Field of work: crystallography
Image: Professor Dorothy Hodgkin.jpg
Work location: Cambridge
Residence: Oxford

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member of: Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society
Commons category: Dorothy Hodgkin
date of birth: 1910-05-12
date of death: 1994-07-29
nominated for: Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Commons gallery: Dorothy Hodgkin
cause of death: cerebral hemorrhage
name in native language: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
manner of death: natural causes
P8168: Frank E. Lucas
medical condition: rheumatoid arthritis
interested in: biochemistry

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Encyclopedic overview

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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