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Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin OM FRS HonFRSC [9] [10] (née Crowfoot; 12 May 1910 – 29 July 1994) 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.
Dorothy Hodgkin Cecily Darwin Littleton (15 November 1926 – 14 April 2022) was a Scottish X-ray crystallographer and horticulturalist. She worked alongside Dorothy Hodgkin on the identification of the crystal structure of biomolecules.
John Hodgkin (1766–1845) [1] John Hodgkin (1766–1845) was an English tutor, grammarian, and calligrapher. He married Elizabeth Rickman (1768-1833) of a Sussex Quaker family and together they had four sons of whom the first two died in infancy [2]
Thomas Lionel Hodgkin was born at Mendip House, Headington Hill, near Oxford.Named after his grandfather, the historian Thomas Hodgkin, [1] he was the son of Robert Howard Hodgkin, Provost of Queen's College, Oxford, and Dorothy Forster Smith, daughter of the historian Arthur Lionel Smith.
It was in Bernal's research group that after a year working with Tiny Powell at Oxford, Dorothy Hodgkin continued her early research career. [2] Together, in 1934, they took the first X-ray photographs of hydrated protein crystals using the trick of bathing the crystals in their mother liquor, giving one of the first glimpses of the world of ...
Hodgkin was born in Banbury, Oxfordshire, on 5 February 1914.He was the oldest of three sons of Quakers George Hodgkin and Mary Wilson Hodgkin. His father was the son of Thomas Hodgkin and had read for the Natural Science Tripos at Cambridge where he had befriended electrophysiologist Keith Lucas.
His team collaborated extensively with Alexander Todd's group in Cambridge and with Dorothy Hodgkin's laboratory in Oxford. [1] The story of the research on pernicious anaemia, liver extracts, and vitamin B 12, up to 1964, is told by E. Lester Smith in his monograph Vitamin B 12 (3rd edition, 1965). [9] [10]
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