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.

Education & research

Early on Dorothy developed a passion for chemistry, and her mother fostered her interest in science in general. Her excellent early education prepared her well for university. Aged 18, she started studying chemistry in Sommerville, then one of the Oxford colleges for women only.

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Chemistry - Sommerville - Oxford

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She also studied in Cambridge under the tutelage of John Desmond Bernal where she became aware of the potential of X-ray crystallography to determine the structure of proteins.

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Cambridge - John Desmond Bernal - Proteins

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In 1934, she moved back to Oxford and two years later, in 1936, she became a research fellow at Somerville College, Oxford, a post which she held until 1977. In 1960 she was appointed Wolfson Research Professor at the Royal Society.

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1934 - Somerville College - 1960 - Royal Society

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