Chemist
Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin was born in Cairo in 1910, she was a chemist who studied at Oxford, where in her last year she decided to specialize in X-ray crystallography, then moved to Cambridge where she worked with a very famous scientist, John Desmond Bernal. She then returned to Oxford to take up a research position and there she stayed for her entire career before marrying historian Thomas Hodgkin in 1947.
She succeeded in developing the technique of X-ray diffraction which she later applied in the search for the exact three-dimensional structure of complex organic molecules. She also determined the structure of pepsin, penicillin, among others, and discovered the crystalline structure of insulin which is an essential drug for the treatment of diabetes. Even before discovering all this, he won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on X-ray diffraction.
"I was captured for life by chemistry and crystals."
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