Published “<i>Gaia</i> Data Release 3” in Astronomy & Astrophysics — cited 4,178 times.
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Dorothy Hodgkin
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.
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science · English chemist (1910–1994) · chemist · biochemist · crystallographer · biophysicist · physicist · also Dorothy Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot, Dorothy Crowfoot, Hodgkin
Born 12 May 1910 · Died 29 July 1994 · Q7487
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2023· 1 entry
2022· 1 entry
The Department of Biochemistry in Oxford renamed its much expanded building after Hodgkin, calling it the "Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building"
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2021· 1 entry
Published “<i>Gaia</i>Early Data Release 3” in Astronomy & Astrophysics — cited 3,752 times.
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2018· 1 entry
Published “<i>Gaia</i> Data Release 2” in Astronomy & Astrophysics — cited 7,461 times.
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2017· 1 entry
Published “Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger<sup>*</sup>” in The Astrophysical Journal Letters — cited 3,678 times.
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2016· 1 entry
Published “The<i>Gaia</i>mission” in Astronomy & Astrophysics — cited 6,433 times.
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2015· 1 entry
Hodgkin's 1949 paper The X-ray Crystallographic Investigation of the Structure of Penicillin was honoured by a Citation for Chemical Breakthrough Award from the Division of History of Chemistry of the American Chemical S
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2014· 1 entry
seattlepi.com: Dorothy Hodgkin: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
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2013· 1 entry
RealClearScience: X-Ray Crystallography: Dorothy Hodgkin
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2012· 1 entry
Hodgkin was featured in the BBC Radio 4 series The New Elizabethans to mark the diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II
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2010· 1 entry
During the 350th anniversary of the founding of the Royal Society, Hodgkin was the only woman in a set of stamps celebrating ten of the Society's most illustrious members, taking her place alongside Isaac Newton, Edward
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1994· 4 entries
Died 1994-07-29.
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“Una gran ventaja del análisis de rayos X como método de análisis de la estructura química es su poder para mostrar una estructura totalmente inesperada y sorprendente con, al mismo tiempo, la certeza completa.”
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“... Quedé cautivada por los edificios químicos que habían surgido a través de los experimentos y la imaginación - pero aún así tenía una pregunta que me acechaba. ¿No sería mejor si realmente pudiésemos "ver" si esas moléculas tan complicadas como los esteroles, o la estricnina, ... eran justamente como sugerían los experimentos?.”
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“Would it not be better if one could really 'see' whether molecules...were just as experiments suggested?”
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1993· 1 entry
An asteroid (5422) discovered on 23 December 1982 by L
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1988· 1 entry
The year after the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty imposed "a global ban on short- and long-range nuclear weapons systems, as well as an intrusive verification regime"
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1987· 2 entries
Accepted the Lenin Peace Prize from the government of Mikhail Gorbachev
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In recognition of her work for peace and disarmament
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1986· 1 entry
Won Lomonosov Gold Medal (1986).
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1983· 2 entries
Awarded Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (1983).
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Hodgkin received the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
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1982· 1 entry
Received the Lomonosov Medal of the Soviet Academy of Sciences
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1981· 2 entries
Won Dalton Medal (1981).
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Was awarded the Dalton Medal from the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society
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1979· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate presented by The Open University (1979).
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1978· 2 entries
Awarded Longstaff Prize (1978).
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Was given an honorary Degree of Science from University of Bath
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1976· 3 entries
Won Copley Medal (1976).
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Became president of the Pugwash Conference and served longer than any who preceded or succeeded her in this post
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Was the first woman to receive the prestigious Copley Medal
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1972· 2 entries
Won Banting Medal (1972).
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Won Royal Society Bakerian Medal (1972).
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1971· 2 entries
Won Baly Medal (1971).
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After the Chinese group themselves independently solved the structure of insulin, later than Hodgkin's team but to a higher resolution
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1970· 1 entry
Career landmark: Chancellor of the University of Bristol (1970–1988).
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1966· 1 entry
Was awarded the Iota Sigma Pi National Honorary Member for her significant contribution
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1965· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Merit (1965).
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1964· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1964).
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Became the third woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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1961· 1 entry
Thomas became an advisor to Kwame Nkrumah, President of Ghana, a country he visited for extended periods before Nkrumah's ouster in 1966
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1960· 1 entry
Hodgkin was appointed the Royal Society's Wolfson Research Professor, a position she held until 1970
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1958· 1 entry
Was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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1956· 1 entry
Won Royal Medal (1956).
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1955· 1 entry
And she was given a fully modern laboratory the following year
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1953· 1 entry
And subsequently not allowed to visit the country except by CIA waiver
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1952· 1 entry
Published “A quantitative description of membrane current and its application to conduction and excitation in nerve” in The Journal of Physiology — cited 17,818 times.
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1948· 1 entry
Hodgkin first encountered vitamin B12, one of the most structurally complex vitamins known, and created new crystals
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1947· 2 entries
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1947).
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Was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
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1945· 1 entry
Hodgkin and her colleagues, including biochemist Barbara Low, solved the structure of penicillin, demonstrating, contrary to scientific opinion at the time, that it contains a β-lactam ring
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1937· 2 entries
Dorothy Crowfoot married Thomas Lionel Hodgkin, an historian's son, who was then teaching an adult-education class in mining and industrial communities in the north of England after he resigned from the Colonial Office
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For research on X-ray crystallography and the chemistry of sterols
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1934· 2 entries
When she was offered a small sample of crystalline insulin by Robert Robinson
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At the age of 24, Dorothy began experiencing pain in her hands causing them to become swollen and distorted
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1933· 1 entry
Hodgkin was awarded a research fellowship by Somerville College, and in 1934, she moved back to Oxford
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1932· 1 entry
With a first-class honours degree, the third woman at this institution to achieve this distinction
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1928· 2 entries
At age 18 Hodgkin entered Somerville College, Oxford, where she studied chemistry
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Hodgkin joined her parents at the archaeological site of Jerash, in present-day Jordan, where she documented the patterns of mosaics from multiple Byzantine-era Churches dated to the 5th–6th centuries
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1926· 1 entry
On his retirement from the Sudan Civil Service, her father took the post of Director of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, where he and her mother remained until 1935
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1923· 1 entry
Dorothy and her sister would study pebbles that they had found in nearby streams using portable mineral analysis kit
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1921· 1 entry
Hodgkin's father entered her in the Sir John Leman Grammar School in Beccles, England, where she was one of two girls allowed to study chemistry
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1914· 1 entry
Hodgkin's mother left her (age 4) and her two younger sisters Joan (age 2) and Elisabeth (age 7 months) with their Crowfoot grandparents near Worthing, and returned to her husband in Egypt
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1910· 1 entry
Born 1910-05-12.
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