The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1964
Awarded on: 1964-10-29
"for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances"
Affiliations:
- University of Oxford, Royal Society – Oxford, United Kingdom
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Born: 1910-05-12 in Cairo, Egypt
Gender: female
Field: English chemist (1910–1994)
Biography
Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin was an English chemist who advanced the technique of X-ray crystallography to determine the structure of biomolecules, which became essential for structural biology. She received the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and is the only British woman scientist to have been awarded a Nobel Prize.