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Biochemist

Dorothy Hodgkin was a British biochemist renowned for her contributions to X-ray crystallography. She won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964 for her work in elucidating the structures of complex biological molecules, becoming the first woman to receive the award.

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“I should not like to leave an impression that all structural problems can be settled by X-ray analysis or that all crystal structures are easy to solve. I seem to have spent much more of my life not solving structures than solving them.”

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Book:The collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

Source: The collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

“I first met the subject of X-ray diffraction of crystals in the pages of the book W. H. Bragg wrote for school children in 1925, Concerning the Nature of Things.”

Firsts Children Book School Subjects Mets Pages Rays Crystals

Book:The collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

Source: The collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

“I used to say the evening that I developed the first x-ray photograph I took of insulin in 1935 was the most exciting moment of my life. But the Saturday afternoon in late July 1969, when we realized that the insulin electron density map was interpretable, runs that moment very close.”

Firsts Moments Running Used Late Exciting Photograph Evening Maps That Moment Rays Afternoon Saturday July Electrons Density Insulin Saturday Afternoon

Book:The collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

Source: The collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

“A great advantage of X-ray analysis as a method of chemical structure analysis is its power to show some totally unexpected and surprising structure with, at the same time, complete certainty.”

Shows Advantage Method Structure Certainty Analysis Unexpected Chemicals Rays Surprising

Book:The collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

Source: The collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

About the Author

Born: May 12, 1910
Died: July 29, 1994
Known for: Biochemist
Quotes: 8

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