Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

DOROTHY CROWFOOT HODGKIN d1994. Nobel Prize-winning British chemist who advanced the technique of X-ray crystallography to determine the structure of biomolecules, which became essential for structural biology. Amongst her most influential discoveries are the confirmation of the structure of penicillin as previously surmised by Edward Abraham and Ernst Boris Chain and the structure of vitamin B12 (for which in 1964) she became the third woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. She also elucidated the structure of insulin in 1969 after 35 years of work. She died in Warwickshire aged 84 on July 29th 1994