The scientist Dorothy Hodgkin

Who is The scientist Dorothy Hodgkin?
Dorothy Hodgkin full name is Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin, she is a famous British chemist. She was the one who successfully analyzed the structure of proteins with X-rays. It was that work that brought her the prestigious Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964.
After 35 years of intense research, Dorothy Hodgkin was able to decipher the structure of insulin. Use X-rays to analyze the structure of many biomolecules. Therefore, she is considered one of the pioneer scientists in the field of X-ray crystallography of biomolecules.
"Insulin" is one of the most special research projects. hers. It began in 1934 when she presented a small sample of crystalline crystals by Robert Robinson. The hormone carries a complex and wide range of effects in the body. However, at this stage X-ray crystallography has not been developed enough to deal with the complexity of the insulin molecule. She and others spent years improving the technique. It was not until 1969-35 years later - the structure of insulin was finally solved.
For her dedication to human science Dorothy Hodgkin deservedly received the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1964. She is also the second person in 60 years, after Florence Nightingale, to be appointed by a king or queen into the Order of Merit. She is the first person as of 2016, the only woman to receive the prestigious Copley Medal.
She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1947 and an EMBO Fellow in 1970. .
In 1958, she was elected a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
In addition, she became a foreign member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences for several years. 1970.
In 1982, Dorothy received the Order of Lomonosov from the USSR Academy of Sciences and in 1987 she received the Lenin Peace Prize from the Soviet government Mikhail Gorbachev.

From an early age, Dorothy Hodgkin had an endless passion for Chemistry. In 1921, she studied at the Sir John Leman School in Beccles. Here she was one of only two people allowed to study chemistry. With a passion for learning, Dorothy Hodgkin passed the entrance exam to Oxford University when she was 18 years old. Here she studied Chemistry at the University of Oxford. In 1932, Dorothy received a first-class bachelor's degree from the University - the third woman to do so.
In 1933, she was awarded a Research Fellowship from Somerville College, and in 1934, She moved back to Oxford
In 1960, she was appointed research professor at the Royal Society Wolfson, she held this position until 1970. Here she received salary, research expenses and research support to continued his work at the University of Oxford.

She was born in Cairo, Egypt, where her father was an archaeologist and scholar. Her mother - Molly is a botanist.
Her family lives in Egypt in the winter, and in the summer they return to England.

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When was The scientist Dorothy Hodgkin born?
Dorothy Hodgkin birthday 12-5-1910 (at the age of 114).
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Dorothy Hodgkin was born in Cairo, of Egypt. Ms, whose Zodiac is Taurus, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Dog. Dorothy Hodgkin's global rank is 52822 and whose rank is 249 in list of famous The scientist.

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