Political activist and Nobel winner Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin pioneered X-ray crystallography to discover the molecular structures of penicillin and insulin. Despite Hodgkin’s academic aptitude, her ...

They were two of the most influential women of the 20th Century. Dorothy Hodgkin's model of the Penicillin molecule was made during the future prime minister's time at the university Though ...

The medicinal potential of penicillin was accidentally discovered ... using X-ray crystallography by the Oxford research scientist Dorothy Hodgkin who took up the problem in 1942.

It was Ernst Boris Chain, Alexander Fleming, and Howard Florey who discovered penicillin, but it was Dorothy Hodgkin who, using a method called X-ray crystallography, revealed its structure. X-ray ...

according to the book “Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life” (2014), by Georgina Ferry. “Penicillin and all its degradation products contain sulfur. This is very hush-hush.” Their wartime research ...

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin died in 1994 as both inspiration ... Then cue her crossing paths with Ernst Chain, who was working on penicillin trials. By 1946, our well-honed, intellectually fearless ...

Hodgkin, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1964 for her work on penicillin and insulin, died last week after suffering a stroke, her family said Sunday. Hodgkin, 84, died at her home in the ...

Dorothy Hodgkin will be a dazzling reminder of how British ingenuity has led the way with antibiotics On VE day in 1945, Hodgkin completed the three-dimensional structure of penicillin at a time ...

Google often celebrates great women in history by way of Google Doodle. Today's front-page illustration is no exception — Dorothy Hodgkin, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964 ...

Dorothy Hodgkin (née Crowfoot) is renowned for her discovery of the molecular structure of penicillin and of Vitamin B12, which made her the third woman to receive a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964.

The medicinal potential of penicillin was accidentally discovered ... using X-ray crystallography by the Oxford research scientist Dorothy Hodgkin who took up the problem in 1942.

Though born in the twentieth century, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin had a typical late-nineteenth century upbringing. She was born in Cairo, Egypt, then a British colony. When Hodgkin was four ...