Dorothy Hodgkin

Hodgkin obtained her Chemistry Degree from the University of Oxford in 1928, being only the third woman to achieve first-class honours.
She obtained her PhD at the University of Cambridge in 1937.
Hodgkin collaborated with J.D. Bernal in the first X-ray diffraction studies of pepsin as a crystalline protein.
She confirmed the structure of penicillin in 1946, and subsequently determined the structures of vitamin B12 in 1956 and insulin in 1969
Hodgkin won a Nobel Prize in 1964 for protein crystallography, becoming the first British female science Nobel Prize winner.

Text: The Royal Society [Accessed 10 February 2020]

Author: Anthonia Oluwatuyi (2020) LJMU Student

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