The medicinal potential of penicillin was accidentally discovered ... X-ray crystallography by the Oxford research scientist Dorothy Hodgkin who took up the problem in 1942. She was awarded ...

Dorothy Crowfoot ... knowledge of the shape of penicillin was absolutely pivotal in understanding how it could overcome bacterial infections. As a result, Hodgkin’s work is still extremely ...

Political activist and Nobel winner Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin pioneered X-ray crystallography to discover the molecular structures of penicillin and insulin. Despite Hodgkin’s academic aptitude, her ...

Dorothy Crowfoot ... dimensional shapes of penicillin (1945) and vitamin B12 (1955). Accurate knowledge of the shape of penicillin was absolutely pivotal in understanding how it could overcome ...

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin simply has ... dimensional structure of penicillin at a time when its chemical formula was still the subject of much debate. We have her model of the structure in our ...

They were two of the most influential women of the 20th Century. Dorothy Hodgkin's model of the Penicillin molecule was made during the future prime minister's time at the university Though ...

Image A molecular model of penicillin by Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, Dr. Low’s mentor. Their research helped transform penicillin into a wonder drug that could be replicated, mass-produced and ...

Hodgkin died from a cardiac stroke on 29 July 1994. She was 84 years old. Molecular model of penicillin by Dorothy Hodgkin, c1945 (via Science Museum London/Science and Society Picture Library ...

The medicinal potential of penicillin was accidentally discovered ... X-ray crystallography by the Oxford research scientist Dorothy Hodgkin who took up the problem in 1942. She was awarded ...

Dorothy Crowfoot ... knowledge of the shape of penicillin was absolutely pivotal in understanding how it could overcome bacterial infections. As as result, Hodgkin’s work is still extremely ...

They were two of the most influential women of the 20th Century. Dorothy Hodgkin's model of the Penicillin molecule was made during the future prime minister's time at the university Though ...