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2. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin. She pursued her crystallographic studies, notfor the sake of honors, but because that was what she liked to do. http://www.engr.psu.edu/wep/EngCompSp98/Aclausi/HodgkinD.html

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Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994) Obituary - Reprinted from Physics Today, May, 1995 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, sole winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, died at her home in Ilmington, England, on 29 July 1994. She won the Nobel Prize "for her determination by x-ray techniques of the structures of biologically important molecules." The molecular structures that she determined include those of cholesteryl iodide, penicillin, vitamin Bl2, vitamin B12 coenzyme and the protein hormone insulin. Her achievements included not only these structure determinations and the scientific insight they provided but also the development of methods that made such structure determinations possible. Dorothy Crowfoot, born on 12 May 1910 in Cairo, Egypt, obtained her first degree in chemistry at Somerville College, Oxford. Her x-ray crystallographic career started with her studies of thallium dialkyl halides with Herbert M. (Tiny) Powell in the department of mineralogy and crystallography at Oxford. She obtained a PhD at Cambridge University in 1937, working from 1932 to 1936 with John Desmond Bernal, who reinforced her lifelong interest in structural biochemistry. In 1934 Bernal and Crowfoot first reported on the diffraction pattern of a protein crystal, pepsin, pointing out that protein crystals should not be dried but should be studied surrounded by their mother liquor (the standard method used since that time). The air-dried crystals gave very poor, if any, diffraction patterns, while those surrounded by mother liquor diffracted well.

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Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin OM May 12 July 29 ) was a British scientist , born Dorothy Mary Crowfoot in Cairo Order of Merit medal of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, displayed in the Royal Society, London She was a pioneer of X-ray crystallography . She discovered the chemical structure of penicillin in the , which enabled it to be manufactured synthetically; and also those of vitamin B12 and insulin . This latter achievement took her 34 years, having started in 1933. She studied chemistry at Oxford and Cambridge universities, before becoming a research fellow at Somerville College, Oxford in , a post which she held until . In she was appointed Wolfson Research Professor at the Royal Society . In she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work in crystallography and in the Copley Medal from the Royal Society . In she was appointed to the Order of Merit , filling the vacancy left by Winston Churchill Categories Nobel Prize in Chemistry winners Views Article Discussion Edit History Personal tools Log in Navigation Main Page Community portal Current events Recent changes ... Donations Search Toolbox What links here Related changes Special pages Other languages Deutsch This page was last modified 03:55, 1 Jun 2004.

5. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was born on May 12, 191 0in Cairo Egypt. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin has been honored with many awards. http://www.ceemast.csupomona.edu/nova/hodg.html

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was born on May 12, 191 in Cairo Egypt. Her father was an archaeologist serving for the Egyptian Ministry of Education in Khartoum. Her mother was a self-trained amateur on botany and a nature artist expert on Coptic textiles. Dr. Hodgkin spent the majority of her life in England and worked at universities such as Oxford and Cambridge. Her husband, Dr. Thomas Hodgkin was an expert of African Affairs. She had three children who chose careers in academics. Her eldest son became professor of mathematics. Her daughter taught at a girl's school in Zambia. Her youngest son volunteered for a service similar to the Peace Corps. Some interesting anecdotes about Dr. Hodgkin is that when she received a letter from Buckingham Palace she left it sealed fearing the title of "Darne." Dr. Hodgkin was later relieved to find that she had been offered the Order of Merit, which is a much greater honor. During her work at Oxford University Dr. Hodgkin was banned from research meetings for the faculty chemistry club because she was a woman. With time, talent, and perseverance she won over the students and faculty and was allowed to attend the meetings. In a BBC radio interview she was asked whether being a woman had hindered her career. She answered "men were always particularly nice and helpful to me because I was a woman." Some of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin's accomplishments are that she was the first scientist who was able to determine the structure of the protein insulin. With her discoveries with insulin it has helped many people with diabetes improve their lives. In 1945 she was the first person to use a computer for a biochemical problem to help her with calculations. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was also able to determine the chemical formula of penicillin. This was an important discovery because penicillin is needed to control infections. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was able to determine the atom arrangement of vitamin B-12.

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No. 933: DOROTHY CROWFOOT HODGKIN by John H. Lienhard Click here for audio of Episode 933. Today, we use Byzantine patterns of X-ray dots to figure out 3-dimensional structures. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them. D orothy Crowfoot was born in Egypt in 1910. Her parents were English archaeologists. As WW-I began, they packed her off to England. During a choppy education there, she ran across a textbook that told her how to grow copper sulfate crystals. When ten-year-old Dorothy decided to try it, science was destined to change. She resolved to understand this magical lifelike process. Then a geologist friend gave her a box of reagents and minerals. He told her, "Buy a proper book on analytical chemistry!" She did. She also built a chemistry lab in her attic and set her sights on the male bastion of Oxford University. Just before college she went to Jerusalem to help her parents excavate Byzantine churches. Sharon McGrane tells how Dorothy reconstructed mosaic patterns from fragments on the floors. It took a trick of seeing for which she had a special gift but it was a gift that would serve chemistry, not archaeology.

7. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (19101994). Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin aBritish biochemist and crystallographer and was the sole winner http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/webprojects2003/bennett/dorothyhodgkin.htm

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994) Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin a British biochemist and crystallographer and was the sole winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determining the highly complex structure of the vitamin B-12 molecule. She used X rays to make this discovery. Knowledge of the molecular structure of vitamin B-12 has enabled scientists to better understand how the body uses this substance to build red blood cells and prevent a disease called pernicious anemia. Her achievements included not only these structure determinations and the scientific insight they provided but also the development of methods that made such structure determinations possible. Hodgkin devoted her career to studying the structures of complex substances through a method called X-ray crystallographic analysis. During the 1940's, she determined the molecular structures of cholesterol iodide, penicillin, and other related organic compounds. In 1969, she revealed the three-dimensional structure of insulin, a protein used to treat diabetes. Dorothy Crowfoot was born in Cairo, Egypt. She graduated with her first degree from Somerville College, Oxford University in 1931 and then obtained a PhD at Cambridge University in 1937.

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Dictionaries: General Computing Medical Legal Encyclopedia Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Word: Word Starts with Ends with Definition Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin OM The Order of Merit (OM) is a British honorary institution. It was established in 1902 by King Edward VII as a reward for distinguished service in the armed forces, science, art, literature, or for the promotion of culture. The order is limited to twenty-four members, but additional foreigners may be added as "honourary members". The order is open to women; Florence Nightingale was the first of them, being appointed in 1907. Members are entitled to the post-nominal "OM". The badge has the appearance of a red Maltese Cross surmounted by a golden crown. Click the link for more information. May 12 May 12 is the 132nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (133rd in leap years). There are 233 days remaining. Events 1191 - Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre. 1264 - The Battle of Lewes begins. 1328 - Nicholas V is consecrated at St Peter's Basilica in Rome by the bishop of Venice. 1588 - Henry III of France flees Paris after Henry of Guise enters the city.

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Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Photo courtesy of http://www.nobel.se/chemistry/laureates/1964/hodgkin-bio.html May 12, 1920 - July 29, 1994 Received Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Work with Atom Structure Born on May 12, 1920 in Cairo, Egypt. First of four daughters to John and Grace Crowfoot. Both parents worked as archaeologists. Her parents moved often so Dorothy and her sisters only saw their parents for a few months a year. Attended Sir John Leman School in Beccles, Suffolk, England from 1921-1928. For her sixteenth birthday she received a book by William Henry Bragg (a Nobel Prize winner in Physics) and at that point knew what she wanted to do with her life. Attended Somerville College in Oxford in 1928. Graduated in 1932 with a degree in Chemistry. Attended Cambridge University in 1932 to earn her Ph.D. and graduated in 1937. Family Life and Careers 1933 given a research fellowship at Cambridge and Oxford in England.

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Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin aus Wikipedia, der freien Enzyklopädie Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin 12. Mai in Kairo 30. Juli in Shipston-on-Stour England ) war eine englische Biochemikerin . Für ihre Analyse der Struktur des Vitamins B12 erhielt sie den Nobelpreis für Chemie Dorothy Crowfoot war die älteste von vier Töchtern eines englischen Kolonialbeamten in Kairo. Die Eltern reisten viel und ließen deshalb ihre Kinder bei Verwandten in England aufwachsen. Schon als Jugendliche war Dorothy Crowfoot fasziniert von Kristallen und chemischen Strukturen. Als sie mit 16 Parsons "Grundlagen der Chemie" las, beschloss sie Chemie zu studieren. Von bis belegte sie Chemie in Oxford , anschließend ging sie nach Cambridge , um unter der Leitung von Bernal Sterole zu untersuchen. Sie war von der "Eleganz" der damals neuen Röntgenstrukturanalyse hingerissen. kehrte Dorothy Crowfoot als Lehrkraft nach Oxford zurück. Im selben Jahr begann sie mit der chemischen Analyse des Insulins , eine Analyse, die 35 Jahre dauern sollte, bis die gesamte Struktur dieses Stoffs aufgedeckt war. kam ihr Sohn Luke zur Welt. Kurz darauf erkrankte sie schwer an

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Dorothy Crowfoot was born in Cairo on May 12th, 1910 where her father, John Winter Crowfoot, was working in the Egyptian Education Service. He moved soon afterwards to the Sudan, where he later became both Director of Education and of Antiquities; Dorothy visited the Sudan as a girl in 1923, and acquired a strong affection for the country. After his retirement from the Sudan in 1926, her father gave most of his time to archaeology, working for some years as Director of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem and carrying out excavations on Mount Ophel, at Jerash, Bosra and Samaria. Her mother, Grace Mary Crowfoot (born Hood) was actively involved in all her father's work, and became an authority in her own right on early weaving techniques. She was also a very good botanist and drew in her spare time the illustrations to the official Flora of the Sudan. Dorothy Crowfoot spent one season between school and university with her parents, excavating at Jerash and drawing mosaic pavements, and she enjoyed the experience so much, that she seriously considered giving up chemistry for archaeology. She became interested in chemistry and in crystals at about the age of 10, and this interest was encouraged by Dr. A.F. Joseph, a friend of her parents in the Sudan, who gave her chemicals and helped her during her stay there to analyse ilmenite. Most of her childhood she spent with her sisters at Geldeston in Norfolk, from where she went by day to the Sir John Leman School, Beccles, from 1921-28. One other girl, Norah Pusey, and Dorothy Crowfoot were allowed to join the boys doing chemistry at school, with Miss Deeley as their teacher; by the end of her school career, she had decided to study chemistry and possibly biochemistry at university.

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1964 "for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances" Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin United Kingdom University of Oxford, Royal Society Oxford, United Kingdom b. 1910 d. 1994 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1964 Presentation Speech Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Biography ... Other Resources The 1964 Prize in: Physics Chemistry Physiology or Medicine Literature ... Peace Find a Laureate: SITE FEEDBACK CONTACT TELL A FRIEND Last modified June 23, 2003 The Official Web Site of The Nobel Foundation

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Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin presents prizes to children. Among the X-ray crystallographers inspired by William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg was Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910–1994), the third woman ever to win the Nobel Prize in chemistry, which she received in 1964. Dorothy Crowfoot was born in Cairo, Egypt, to English parents. Although her formal schooling took place in England, she spent a significant part of her youth in the Middle East and North Africa, where her father was a school inspector. Both her parents were authorities in archaeology, and she almost followed the family vocation, but from childhood she was fascinated by minerals and crystals. She enjoyed using a portable mineral analysis kit given to her when she became interested in analyzing pebbles she and her sister found in the stream that ran through the Crowfoot's garden in Khartoum, Sudan. When she was fifteen, her mother gave her Sir William Henry Bragg's Concerning the Nature of Things (1925), which contained intriguing discussions of how scientists could use X-rays to "see" atoms and molecules. Hodgkin with Guy Dodson.

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Contents Next Born: Cairo, Egypt, May 12, 1910 Died: Shipston-on-Stour, England, July 29, 1994 A Founder of Protein Crystallography S cientific biographers do not, in general, find much correlation between good character and great science. There are a few exceptions. Historians have unanimously agreed, for example, that Charles Darwin was a particularly admirable, even lovable, figure: a collegial scientist, devoted father, faithful supporter of young colleagues, sincere, honest, and without personal enemies. The Darwin of our age is certainly Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin. In the words of colleague Max Perutz (Nobelist for his solution of the hemoglobin molecule), she was "a great chemist, a saintly, gentle and tolerant lover of people, and a devoted protagonist of peace." In a short space it is impossible to discuss both the significance of her science and the scope of her tireless activity for world peace. Concentrating first on her contributions to science, she is known as a founder of the science of protein crystallography. She and her mentor, J.D. Bernal, were the first to successfully apply X-ray diffraction to crystals of biological substances, beginning with pepsin in 1934. Hodgkin's contributions to crystallography included solutions of the structures of cholesterol, lactoglobulin, ferritin, tobacco mosaic virus, penicillin, vitamin B-12, and insulin (a solution on which she worked for 34 years), as well as the development of methods for indexing and processing X-ray intensities. After the work with Bernal, she established her own laboratory at Oxford, described in the memoirs of her many students as an unfailingly joyful and productive environment.

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Subscriptions Software Orders Support Contributors ... Biographical Snapshots Biographical Snapshots of Famous Women and Minority Chemists: Snapshot This short biographical "snapshot" provides basic information about the person's chemical work, gender, ethnicity, and cultural background. A list of references is given along with additional WWW sites to further your exploration into the life and work of this chemist. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Born: Major discipline: Chemistry Died: Minor discipline: With the aid of electronic computing, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin pioneered the use of X-ray crystallography to deduce the crystal structures of biochemically important molecules such as penicillin, insulin, vitamin B12, and viruses. For this work she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964. Hodgkin was born on May 12, 1910 in Cairo, Egypt, where her family lived from 1902 until World War I began. She completed her primary and secondary schooling in England. In 1926, Hodgkin took the Oxford Senior Local Examination for admission to Somerville College at Oxford University. Although she earned the highest score of any young woman taking the exam, she needed to spend another year learning Latin and another science before qualifying for admission. She obtained a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Oxford in 1931 and eventually joined John D. Bernal's research group at Cambridge University because of her interest in crystallography. While working on her dissertation, Hodgkin worked as a chemistry instructor at Somerville College, where she taught until her retirement in 1977. In 1937, the same year she received her Ph.D. from Cambridge, Dorothy married Thomas Hodgkin.

20. Biography hodgkin, dorothy crowfoot. Chemist (1910 1994) She won the Nobel prize in 1964 in chemistry "for her determination by x-ray techniques of the structure of biologically important molecules. An obituary for Dr. An obituary for Dr. hodgkin can be found in the May 1995 issue of the magazine "Physics Today" published by the American http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/HODGKIN.html

HODGKIN, DOROTHY CROWFOOT Chemist (1910 - 1994) She won the Nobel prize in 1964 in chemistry "for her determination by x-ray techniques of the structure of biologically important molecules. An obituary for Dr. Hodgkin can be found in the May 1995 issue of the magazine "Physics Today" published by the American Institute of Physics. Return to Homepage

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