Dorothy came from a distinguished family of archaeologists. The National Archives of the United Kingdom refer to her as "Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin".ĭorothy Mary Crowfoot was born in Cairo, Egypt, the oldest of the four daughters whose parents worked in North Africa and the middle East in the colonial administration and later as archaeologists. Hodgkin is referred to as "Dorothy Hodgkin" by the Royal Society (when referring to its sponsorship of the Dorothy Hodgkin fellowship), and by Somerville College. Hodgkin used the name "Dorothy Crowfoot" until twelve years after marrying Thomas Lionel Hodgkin, when she began using "Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin". Hodgkin also elucidated the structure of insulin in 1969 after 35 years of work. Īmong her most influential discoveries are the confirmation of the structure of penicillin as previously surmised by Edward Abraham and Ernst Boris Chain and mapping the structure of vitamin B 12, for which in 1964 she became the third woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin OM FRS HonFRSC (née Crowfoot – 29 July 1994) was a 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.
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