Papers and correspondence of Herbert Marcus Powell, 1906-1991 1893, 1924-1991

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Papers and correspondence of Herbert Marcus Powell, 1906-1991 1893, 1924-1991

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Hodgkin, Dorothy, 1910-1994

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Hodgkin 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. Hodgk...

Powell, Herbert Marcus, 1906-1991

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Born in 1906, and educated at Henry VIII School, Coventry, and St. John's College, Oxford. Taught at Oxford University where he pioneered x-ray crystallography. Dorothy Hodgkin (Nobel Laureate Chemistry 1964) was his first research student. He went on to become first University Demonstrator and then in 1944 Reader in Chemical Chrystallography and Head of the Chemical Crystallography Laboratory, before being given a Personal Chair in 1963. Powell became a Professorial Fellow of Hertford College, ...