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Dorothy Hodgkin
British chemist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
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Born | Dorothy Mary Crowfoot (1910-05-12)12 May 1910 |
Died | 29 July 1994(1994-07-29) (aged 84) Ilmington, Warwickshire, England |
Nationality | British |
Education | Sir John Leman Grammar School |
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Spouse | Thomas Lionel Hodgkin (m. 1937) |
Children | Luke, Elizabeth, and Toby |
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Fields | Biochemistry X-ray crystallography |
Thesis | X-ray crystallography and the chemistry of the sterols (1937) |
Doctoral advisor | John Desmond Bernal |
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