Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin, OM , FRS (May 12, 1910–July 29, 1994) was a British scientist, born Dorothy Mary Crowfoot in Cairo.

Early years

Dorothy was born in 1910 in Cairo, Egypt, to John Hodgkin, excavator & scholar of classics, and Grace Mary Hood. For the first four years of her life she lived as an English expatriate in Asia Minor, returning to England only a few month each year. She spend the period of the First World War in the UK under the care of relatives and friends, but separated from her parents. After the war, her mother decided to stay home in England and educate her children - a period that Dorothy desribed as the happiest in her life.

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Cairo - Egypt - First World War

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In 1921, Dorothy entered the Leman School. She traveled abroad frequently to visit her parents in Cairo and Khartoum. Both her father and her mother had a strong influence on Dorothy with their Puritan ethic of selflessness and service to humanity which reverberated in her later achievements.

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Khartoum - Puritan

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