Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin was an English chemist who advanced the technique of X-ray crystallography to determine the structure of biomolecules, which became essential for structural biology. She received the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and is the only British woman scientist to have been awarded a Nobel Prize.
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- Born in
- Cairo
- Educated at
- University of OxfordSomerville CollegeNewnham CollegeSir John Leman High School
- Awards
- 🏆 Copley Medal🏆 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 John Desmond Bernal
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 David Sayre📖 Judith Howard
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1910
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