Facts about dorothy crowfoot hodgkin biography

English chemist (–)

Dorothy Mary Crowfoot HodgkinOM FRS HonFRSC^[9][10] (née Crowfoot; 12 May – 29 July ) was a Nobel Prize-winning English chemist who advanced the technique of X-ray crystallography to determine the structure of biomolecules, which became essential for structural biology.^[9][11]

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 she became the third woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Hodgkin also elucidated the structure of insulin in after 35 years of work.^[12]

Hodgkin used the name "Dorothy Crowfoot" until twelve years after marrying Thomas Lionel Hodgkin, when she began using "Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin".

Hodgkin is referred to as "Dorothy Hodgkin" by the Royal Society (when referring to its sponsorship of the Doroth