Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin
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a Nobel Prize-winning British chemist who advanced the technique of X-ray crystallography which became essential for structural biology
Born
Dorothy Mary Crowfoot 12 May 1910 Cairo, Egypt
Died
29 July 1994 (aged 84) Ilmington, Warwickshire, England
Nationality
British
Known for
Development of protein crystallography Determining the structure of insulin
Fields
Biochemistry X-ray crystallography
Alma mater
Somerville College, Oxford (BA) University of Cambridge (PhD)
Awards
Royal Medal (1956) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1964) Order of Merit (1965) EMBO Member (1970) Copley Medal (1976) Dalton Medal (1981) Lomonosov Gold Medal (1982)
Spouse(s)
Thomas Lionel Hodgkin ( m. 1937)
adultbasic
Britain
Children
Luke, Elizabeth, and Toby
Doctoral advisor
John Desmond Bernal
Doctoral students
Judith Howard Michael N. G. James
Education
Sir John Leman Grammar School
era
1800+
Other notable students
Jack D. Dunitz (postdoc) Margaret Thatcher (undergraduate) Tom Blundell (postdoc) Guy Dodson (postdoc) June Lindsey (postdoc)
Thesis
X-ray crystallography and the chemistry of the sterols (1937)