Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, a pioneering chemist, outspoken leftist, and anti–nuclear war advocate, remains to this day the only British woman to have won a Nobel Prize in any science; she was awarded ...

Though born in the twentieth century, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin had a typical late-nineteenth century upbringing. She was born in Cairo, Egypt, then a British colony. When Hodgkin was four, the family ...

In 1928, Alexander Fleming, a British biologist, discovered penicillin, the first antibiotic, from blue mold. Later, in 1945, British chemist Dorothy Hodgkin revealed that the key structure of ...

Over a decade later, in 1939, Howard Florey worked out how to grow penicillin in useful amounts, still using mould. But it took even longer, until 1945, for Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin to identify ...

Dorothy Hodgkin solved the sturctures of insulin, Vit B12 and penicillin using xray diffraction. She is the only British woman to win the Nobel Prize for science. This lecture is organised by Oxford ...

2014 marks 50 years since Dorothy Hodgkin received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. She solved the structures of medically important molecules: penicillin, vit B12, insulin, cholesterol by xray ...

Dorothy Hodgkin 1910 - 1994 Though born in the twentieth century, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin had a typical late-nineteenth century upbringing. She was born in Cairo, Egypt, then a British colony.