Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin:
Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin was a British chemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
May 10, 1910 in Cairo, Egypt
Death:
July 29, 1994 in Ilmington, Warwickshire, England
Claim to Fame:
Hodgkin was a British chemist who pioneered 3 dimensional x-ray crystallography of molecules. She used this technique to discover the structure of many important biochemicals such as penicillin, vitamin B12 and insulin. For this work, she was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
