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 a Nobel Prize-winning English chemist who advanced the technique of X-ray crystallography to determine the structure of biomolecules, which became essential for structural biology.