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DOROTHY CROWFOOT HODHGKIN

SHORT BIOGRAPHY

01 Who is Dorothy Hodgkin

02 Early Life

03 Education

Index

04 Marriage

05 Achievments

06 Death

07 Photos

08 References

09 Thanks

WHO IS DOROTHY HODGKIN?

• Dorothy Hodgkin is a Nobel Prize award winner chemist in X-ray crystallography. She was actively involved in structural biology by determining the biomolecular structure. Her most influential discoveries include confirming the form of penicillin and vitamin B12.

INTRO

EARLY LIFE

• Dorothy Crowfoot was born to John Winter Crowfoot and Grace Mary Hood Crowfoot in Cairo, Egypt on May 12, 1910
• She was the eldest of the four daughters.
• Dorothy Hodgkin's dad worked as a school inspector and an archeologist, while the mother, Grace, was a botanist who was fascinated by the flora in Sudan.

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Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin with her mother and sisters

EARLY LIFE

• Dorothy’s interest in chemistry started when she was just 10 years old.

• When she was attending Sir John Leman School in north Suffolk, England she was allowed to join the boys as they studied chemistry.

• By the end of her early schooling, she had already decided that chemistry was something she wanted to pursue.

EDUCATION

• Dorothy Hodgkin attended Somerville College, a women's college that is part of the Oxford colleges, from 1928 to 1932. She initially studied chemistry and some archaeology, but then became interested in x-ray crystallography.

• Hodgkin finished her undergraduate education at Somerville and then went to Cambridge University in 1932. In 1933, she received a fellowship from Somerville for two years of research and study, one to be held at Cambridge and the second one at Somerville.
• She spent most of the rest of her career at Somerville (Oxford) in research and education until she retired in 1977.

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MARRIAGE and HEALTH

• Dorothy married Thomas Hodgkin, a historian. Their marriage brought them three children. Their eldest son Luke became a mathematician. Their daughter Elizabeth followed her father’s career, becoming a historian, while the younger son Toby studied botany and agriculture.
• In 1938, after her first child was born, Hodgkin developed rheumatoid arthritis. This caused some difficulty with the use of her hands, but in spite of that, she continued her career.

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Dorothy Hodgkin was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for solving the atomic structure of molecules such as penicillin and insulin, using X-ray crystallography.
• To this day, she holds the title of being the only woman that received a Nobel Prize for science.
• For work on penicillin, she became the second woman to be elected to the Royal Society
• She also became the first woman to receive the Copley medal and was a winner of the Lenin Peace Prize.

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DEATH

She died in July 1994 age 84 after a stroke, at her husband's home

PHOTO III

PHOTO I

PHOTO II

Dorothy Hodgkin with her husband Thomas Hodgkin

Hodgkin with models and crystallography images of the molecules she studied

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin in her late teens (in the 1920s)

REFERENCES

• https://www.nobelprize.org/
• https://www.lottie.com/
• https://www.britannica.com/
• https://www.famousscientists.org/
• https://royalsociety.org/
• https://study.com/

Thank you!

AYÇA AKHAN418 11-D