Dorothy Hodgkin Gets A Google Doodle

Dorothy Hodgkin is the subject of a Google doodle today. Hodgkin was a British biochemist, who was actually born in Cairo, Egypt. Hodgkin won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1964, making her the firs...
Dorothy Hodgkin Gets A Google Doodle
Written by Chris Crum
  • Dorothy Hodgkin is the subject of a Google doodle today. Hodgkin was a British biochemist, who was actually born in Cairo, Egypt.

    Hodgkin won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1964, making her the first British woman to win a Nobel Prize for a science subject. She won for solving the structures of biological molecules using X-ray crystallography, for which she is considered a pioneer.

    She was able to confirm the structures of penicillin and vitamin B12. She was the third woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

    Here’s a video featuring Dorothy Hodgkin biographer Georgina Ferry discussing her work.

    Hodgkin died in 1994.

    You can find all of Google’s doodles here.

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