- English biochemist
who analysed the structure of penicillin, insulin, and vitamin B12.
Hodgkin was the first to use a computer to analyse the molecular structure
of complex chemicals, and this enabled her to produce three-dimensional
models. Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1964.
Crowfoot was born in Cairo and educated at Oxford. At Cambridge 1932-34
she developed the technique of X-ray investigation to the point at which
it became a very useful analytical method; she then returned to Oxford
until 1970, when she became chancellor of Bristol University.
Hodgkin studied the structures of calciferol (vitamin D2), lumisterol,
and cholesterol iodide, the first complex organic molecule to be determined
completely by X-ray crystallography.
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