Dorothy Hodgkin

Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin was an English chemist who advanced the technique of X-ray crystallography to determine the structure of biomolecules, which became essential for structural biology. She received the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and is the only British woman scientist to have been awarded a Nobel Prize.

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Who was born first?

• Dorothy Hodgkin and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar were born the same year
• Dorothy Hodgkin and Paul Flory were born the same year
• Dorothy Hodgkin and Pál Turán were born the same year
• Dorothy Hodgkin and Dorothy Vaughan were born the same year
• Dorothy Hodgkin and Jacques Monod were born the same year

Timeline

1. Dorothy Hodgkin (this page)May 12, 1910 – July 29, 1994
2. Dorothy VaughanSeptember 20, 1910 – November 10, 2008
3. Jacques MonodFebruary 9, 1910 – May 31, 1976
4. Pál TuránAugust 18, 1910 – September 26, 1976
5. Paul FloryJune 19, 1910 – September 8, 1985
6. Subrahmanyan ChandrasekharOctober 19, 1910 – August 21, 1995

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• Nicolaus CopernicusFebruary 19, 1473 – May 24, 1543
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