Dorothy Hodgkin
(1910-1994), Chemist and crystallographer; Nobel Prize winner; wife of Thomas Lionel HodgkinDorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin
Sitter in 17 portraits
Chemist and crystallographer. Hodgkin went to Somerville College, Oxford. In 1933 she became the first scientist to make an X-ray diffraction photograph of a protein, a technique she subsequently used to define the structure of penicillin (1942-9), Vitamin B12 (1964) and insulin (1969). Hodgkin became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1947, and was the first and only British woman to win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1964. A Royal Society Fellowship scheme was established in her name, to help women who wish to be both career scientists and to raise children.
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by Ramsey & Muspratt
bromide print, circa 1937
NPG P363(13)
by Ramsey & Muspratt
bromide print, circa 1937
NPG x27431
by Walter Stoneman
half-plate glass negative, 29 June 1947
NPG x26009
by J.S. Lewinski
bromide print on card mount, 1967
NPG x13727
by Godfrey Argent
bromide print, 14 November 1969
NPG x21942
by Godfrey Argent
bromide print, 14 November 1969
NPG x18525
by Anita Corbin and John O'Grady
C-type colour print, 1989
NPG x135905
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