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Dorothy Hodgkin
(12 May 1910 - 29 Jul 1994)
Dorothy (Mary) Hodgkin (née Crowfoot) was an English chemist and X-ray crystallographer who was awarded the
Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1964 for her discoveries of the structure
of biologically important molecules, including penicillin
(1946), vitamin B-12 (1956), and the protein hormone
insulin (1969).
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“... I became captivated by the edifices chemists had raised through
experiment and imagination — but still I had a lurking question. Would
it not be better if one could really 'see' whether molecules as
complicated as the sterols, or strychnine were just as experiment
suggested?”
— Dorothy Hodgkin
(11 Dec 1964)
The X-ray analysis of complicated molecules, Nobel Lecture
The X-ray analysis of complicated molecules, Nobel Lecture
“I was captured for life by chemistry and by crystals.”
— Dorothy Hodgkin
Oxford
Dictionary of Quotations, 6th ed.
