Born in 1910, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin perfected X-ray crystallography, a type of imaging using X-rays to determine a molecule’s three-dimensional structure.
She determined the structures of insulin, penicillin & vitamin B12, leading to tremendous advances in medicine.
Hodgkin was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964. She also advocated for world peace, campaigning against both the Vietnam War & nuclear weapons. https://www.nobelprize.org/womenwhochangedscience/stories/dorothy-hodgkin #HistoryRemix #science #history
The Nobel Prize | Women who changed science | Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
“Captured for life by chemistry and by crystals,” as she described it, Dorothy Hodgkin turned a childhood interest in crystals into the ground-breaking use of X-ray crystallography to “see” the molecules of penicillin, vitamin B12 and insulin.www.nobelprize.org
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Vitamin B12 pirouette!
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Wow. What a gal. Sharp as razors. Will of iron. And cute as a button. The wiki article talks about her rheumatoid arthritis. How can you think with all that pain?
Thanks for introducing her, Sheril.
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •There's an *excellent* In Our Time episode on her.
In Our Time: Dorothy Hodgkin
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0008wkk
Dorothy Hodgkin
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Dorothy Hodgkin is an absolute role model!
She had an amazing scientific career advancing the science of crystallography, *and* she was strongly involved politically to try to make the world more peaceful *and* she had a normal family life (contrarily to some other famous scientists)
I absolutely loved the In Our Time podcast and recommended it to do many people in the past
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0008wkk
Dorothy Hodgkin
BBCHealth Is Wealth
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Leading to the discovery of DNA.
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Insight and imagination taken for granted, but an unbelieveable amount of endless hard work and tedious calculation.
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