Dorothy Hodgkin was a British chemist. She was born on May 12, 1910, in Cairo, Egypt. Her determination to study the structure of penicillin and vitamin brought her the 1964 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Her work on critical discoveries of the structure of both penicillin and later insulin led to significant improvements in health care. Dorothy Hodgkin was the eldest of four sisters whose parents worked in North Africa and the Middle East as archaeologists. She was sent to England for her education, therefore she spent much of her childhood away from her parents. But it was her mother who especially encouraged Hodgkin to pursue her interest in crystal that she first displayed at age 10. Dorothy Hodgkin studied at a state secondary school in the small town of Suffolk. She fought to be allowed to study science along with the boys. She succeeded and was later accepted in 1928 to pursue a degree in chemistry at University of Oxford. She was one of the first scientists who studied the structure of an organic compound by using X-ray crystallography. An Australian pathologist, Howard Florey, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology in Medicine with Alexander Fleming and his colleagues at Oxford succeeded in isolating, penicillin. He asked Hodgkin to solve its structure. By 1945 she did her job. Hodgkin’s work on penicillin was recognized by the Royal Society, Britain’s premier scientific academy, in 1947. That was only two years after a woman had been elected for the first time. What had Dorothy Hodgkin done to get the Nobel Prize?

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Dorothy Hodgkin was a British chemist. She was born on May 12, 1910, in Cairo, Egypt. Her determination to study the structure of penicillin and vitamin brought her the 1964 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Her work on critical discoveries of the structure of both penicillin and later insulin led to significant improvements in health care.

Dorothy Hodgkin was the eldest of four sisters whose parents worked in North Africa and the Middle East as archaeologists. She was sent to England for her education, therefore she spent much of her childhood away from her parents. But it was her mother who especially encouraged Hodgkin to pursue her interest in crystal that she first displayed at age 10.

Dorothy Hodgkin studied at a state secondary school in the small town of Suffolk. She fought to be allowed to study science along with the boys. She succeeded and was later accepted in 1928 to pursue a degree in chemistry at University of Oxford. She was one of the first scientists who studied the structure of an organic compound by using X-ray crystallography.

An Australian pathologist, Howard Florey, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology in Medicine with Alexander Fleming and his colleagues at Oxford succeeded in isolating, penicillin. He asked Hodgkin to solve its structure. By 1945 she did her job. Hodgkin’s work on penicillin was recognized by the Royal Society, Britain’s premier scientific academy, in 1947. That was only two years after a woman had been elected for the first time.

What had Dorothy Hodgkin done to get the Nobel Prize?

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