Hodgkin, Dorothy, 1910-1994
Variant namesHodgkin was educated at Sir John Lehman School, Beccles and Somerville College, Oxford. Apart from two years research at Cambridge University after graduation she remained in Oxford for the rest of her career. She combined teaching chemistry at Somerville with research at the highest level. She became University lecturer and demonstrator in 1946, University Reader in X-ray crystallography in 1956 and from 1960 to official retirement in 1977, Wolfson Research Professor of the Royal Society. Hodgkin was elected FRS in 1947 and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964 for her determinations by x-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances.
From the description of Papers of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, 1928-1993. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 154306108
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referencedIn | Powell, Herbert Marcus, 1906-1991. Papers, 1925-1974. | American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library | |
referencedIn | Papers and correspondence of Richard Laurence Millington Synge, 1914-1994, 1892-1996 | Trinity College Library, University of Cambridge | |
creatorOf | Hodgkin, Dorothy, 1910-1994. Papers of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, 1928-1993. | American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library | |
referencedIn | Papers and correspondence of Herbert Marcus Powell, 1906-1991, 1893, 1924-1991 | Department of Western Manuscripts, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford | |
referencedIn | Jack Dunitz Papers, 1927-2009 | Oregon State University SpecialCollections & Archives Research Center, The ValleyLibrary | |
referencedIn | Haurowitz, Felix, 1896-1987. Mss., 1920-1985 | Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington) | |
referencedIn | Papers and correspondence of Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin, 1910-1994, 1928-1993 | Department of Western Manuscripts, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford | |
referencedIn | David and Clara Shoemaker Papers, 1930-2000 | Oregon State University LibrariesSpecial Collections & University Archives Research Center |
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Birth 1910-05-12
Death 1994-07-29