Dorothy Hodgkin OM FRS FRIC
(1910-1994)

Died aged 84

Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin OM FRS HonFRSC (née Crowfoot; 12 May 1910 – 29 July 1994) was a Nobel Prize-winning British chemist who advanced the technique of X-ray crystallography to determine the structure of biomolecules, which became essential for structural biology. Among her most influential discoveries are the confirmation of the structure of penicillin as previously surmised by Edward Abraham and Ernst Boris Chain; and the structure of vitamin B12, for which in 1964 she became the third woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Hodgkin also elucidated the structure of insulin in 1969 after 35 years of work. Hodgkin used the name "Dorothy Crowfoot" until twelve years after marrying Thomas Lionel Hodgkin, when she began using "Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin". Hodgkin is referred to as "Dorothy Hodgkin" by the Royal Society (when referring to its sponsorship of the Dorothy Hodgkin fellowship), and by Somerville College. The National Archives of the United Kingdom refer to her as "Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin".

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Commemorated on 5 plaques

Dorothy Hodgkin 1910-1994 biochemist and Nobel Laureate who determined the structure of penicillin and vitamin B12 studied at this school 1921-1928

John Leman Grammar School, Beccles, United Kingdom where they studied

This plaque commemorates a life's work for mankind by Dr Dorothy Hodgkin OM FRS 1910-1994 Nobel Prize Winner 1964 Freeman of Beccles 1965 A former pupil of Sir John Leman Grammar School

John Leman Grammar School, Beccles, United Kingdom where they was

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin OM FRS (1910-1994) led pioneering work in this building from 1956-1972 and elsewhere in Oxford on the structures of antibiotics, vitamins and proteins including penicillin, vitamin B12 and insulin, using X-ray diffraction techniques for which she received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964.

University of Oxford Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, Oxford, United Kingdom where they was

The work of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin at the University of Oxford. In this building from 1956-1972 and at other times elsewhere in the Oxford Science Area, Professor Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994) OM FRS Nobel Laueate led pioneering work on the structure of antibiotics, vitamins and proteins, including pencillin, vitamin B12 and insulin, using X-ray diffraction techniques. Many methods for solving crystal structure were developed taking advantage of digital computers from the earliest days. The work provided a basis for much of present day molecular structure driven molecular biology and medicinal chemistry

Dyson Perrins Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom where they was (1956-1972)

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin OM FRS 1910-1994 Crystallographer Nobel Laureate in Chemistry lived here 1957-1968

94 Woodstock Road, Oxford, United Kingdom where they lived