Dorothy Hodgkin

Dorothy Hodgkin OM FRS HonFRSC
Order of Merit medal of Dorothy Hodgkin, displayed in the Royal Society, London, 2004.
Born	Dorothy Mary Crowfoot (1910-05-12)12 May 1910 Cairo, Egypt
Died	29 July 1994(1994-07-29) (aged 84) Ilmington, Warwickshire, England
Nationality	British
Education	Sir John Leman Grammar School
Alma mater	Somerville College, Oxford (BA) University of Cambridge (PhD)
Known for	Development of protein crystallography Determining the structure of insulin
Spouse	Thomas Lionel Hodgkin ​ ​ (m. 1937)​
Children	Luke, Elizabeth, and Toby
Awards	Royal Medal (1956) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1964) Order of Merit (1965) EMBO Member (1970)[1] Copley Medal (1976) Lomonosov Gold Medal (1982)
Scientific career
Fields	Biochemistry X-ray crystallography
Thesis	X-ray crystallography and the chemistry of the sterols (1937)
Doctoral advisor	John Desmond Bernal
Doctoral students	Judith Howard[2][3] Michael N.G. James[4][5]
Other notable students	Jack D. Dunitz (postdoc)[4] Margaret Thatcher (undergraduate)[6] Tom Blundell (postdoc)[7] Guy Dodson (postdoc)

Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin OM FRS HonFRSC^[8] (12 May 1910 – 29 July 1994), was a British chemist. She developed protein crystallography. Hodgkin received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964.^[9]

1. ↑ Anon (2014). "EMBO profile Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin". people.embo.org. Heidelberg: European Molecular Biology Organization.
2. ↑ Howard, Judith Ann Kathleen (1971). The study of some organic crystal structures by neutron diffraction. solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 500477155. Archived from the original on 2022-05-06. Retrieved 2019-05-23.
3. ↑ Crace, John (2006-09-26). "Judith Howard, Crystal gazing: The first woman to head a five-star chemistry department tells John Crace what attracted her to science". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2017-08-17.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} "Chemistry Tree – Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin". academictree.org.
5. ↑ James, Michael Norman George (1966). X-ray crystallographic studies of some antibiotic peptides. bodleian.ox.ac.uk (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 944386483. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.710775. Archived from the original on 2019-12-14. Retrieved 2019-05-23.
6. ↑ John Blundell, Margaret Thatcher, A Portrait of The Iron Lady, 2008, pp. 25–27. Degree student, 1943–1947.
7. ↑ Blundell, T.; Cutfield, J.; Cutfield, S.; Dodson, E.; Dodson, G.; Hodgkin, D.; Mercola, D.; Vijayan, M. (1971). "Atomic positions in rhombohedral 2-zinc insulin crystals". Nature. 231 (5304): 506–11. Bibcode:1971Natur.231..506B. doi:10.1038/231506a0. PMID 4932997. S2CID 4158731.
8. ↑ Hodgkin, Prof. Dorothy Mary Crowfoot. Who Was Who. Vol. 2017 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help) doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U173161 (subscription required)
9. ↑ "Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin." Encyclopedia of World Biography, Gale, 1998. Student Resources in Context. Accessed 31 Mar. 2017.