Science & Technology
A legendary life
Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin
May 12, 1910 – July 29, 1994
British chemist who used X-ray crystallography to reveal the structures of vital biochemical substances.
Her story
A life that changed history
Dorothy Hodgkin advanced X-ray crystallography and used it to determine the structures of penicillin, vitamin B12 and insulin. She received the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determining the structures of important biochemical substances.
“I was captured for life by chemistry and by crystals.”
Georgina Ferry, Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life, pp. 7–8