Dorothy Hodgkin Facts
Dorothy Hodgkin Facts
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| She was born in Cairo, Egypt to archaeologists John and Grace Crowfoot. |
| Dorothy was in England at the age of four when World War I broke out. |
| She remained in England with relatives while her parents returned to their work in Egypt. |
| When she was eighteen she began studying chemistry at the University of Oxford. |
| She later studied for a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge where she studied X-ray crystallography and the structure of proteins. |
| In 1933 Hodgkins was awarded a research fellowship by Somerville College, Oxford . |
| In 1936 she was appointed the College's first fellow and tutor in chemistry and held that post until 1977. |
| In the 1940's one of her students was Margaret Thatcher nee Roberts, the future Prime Minister of England. |
| In April 1953 she became one of the first people to see the model of the double helix structure of DNA constructed by Francis Crick and James Watson. |
| From 1960-1970 she was appointed the Royal Society's Wolfson Research Professor, a position that funded her salary and research. |
| Hodgkin's primary work was in the field of three-dimensional biomolecular structures. |
| In 1945 she published the first structure of a steroid, cholesteryl iodide and the discovered structure of penicillin. |
| In 1948 her created new crystals from Vitamin B12 and was awarded a Nobel Prize for this work. |
| Perhaps her most important work was with crystalline insulin, a research project that took 35 years to complete. |
| Hodgkin received many national and international awards for her work and was the second woman to receive the Order in Merit after Florence Nightingale. |
| She was the first woman to receive the Copley Medal,was a Fellow of the Royal Society and winner of the Lenin Peace Prize. |
| She was Chancellor of Bristol University from 1970 to 1988. |
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