Google has celebrated the 104th birthday of British scientist Dorothy Hodgkin with a doodle. The Doodle displays the structure of the penicillin molecule, which she worked out in 1946. The Doodle image is based on Hodgkin's model, which is on display in the Science Museum in London.
The Egypt-born scientist solved the structure of cholesterol in 1937, penicillin in 1946 and vitamin B12 in 1956, for which she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964. Hodgkin also deciphered the structure of insulin in 1969.
Born on May 12, 1910 in Cairo, as Dorothy Mary Crowfoot, Hodgkin did her PhD at the University of Cambridge, where she learned the potential of X-ray crystallography as the process to determine the structure of proteins. She worked in the field directly on graduating from Oxford, in 1932, first at the University of Cambridge, and then back at Oxford. The work on vitamin B12 that won her the Nobel Prize took her eight years to complete.
Dorothy Hodgkin was a member of the Communist party until the invasion of Hungary in 1956 - in 1953, she was banned from entering the US, later reversed.
She won the Lenin Peace Prize, and was awarded the Order of Merit, (only the 2nd woman after Florence Nightingale). She died in July 1994, aged 84.
The Egypt-born scientist solved the structure of cholesterol in 1937, penicillin in 1946 and vitamin B12 in 1956, for which she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964. Hodgkin also deciphered the structure of insulin in 1969.
Born on May 12, 1910 in Cairo, as Dorothy Mary Crowfoot, Hodgkin did her PhD at the University of Cambridge, where she learned the potential of X-ray crystallography as the process to determine the structure of proteins. She worked in the field directly on graduating from Oxford, in 1932, first at the University of Cambridge, and then back at Oxford. The work on vitamin B12 that won her the Nobel Prize took her eight years to complete.
Dorothy Hodgkin was a member of the Communist party until the invasion of Hungary in 1956 - in 1953, she was banned from entering the US, later reversed.
She won the Lenin Peace Prize, and was awarded the Order of Merit, (only the 2nd woman after Florence Nightingale). She died in July 1994, aged 84.
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