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more general categories information about this item 10. Noble Prize 10. Noble Prize Chemistry (180) 11. Award Year 11. Award Year 1960s (79) 1964 (8) 12. Winner Type 12. Winner Type Person (904) 13. Gender 13. Gender Female (51) 14. Birth Year 14. Birth Year 1910s (117) 1910 (10) 15. Place of Birth 15. Place of Birth Africa (26) Africa, northern (9) Egypt (6) Cairo (4) 16. Death Year 16. Death Year 1990s (82) 1994 (10) 17. Place of Death 17. Place of Death Europe (331) Europe, western (182) United Kingdom (86) Ilmington (1) 19. Given Name 19. Given Name A-D (182) D (34) 20. Family Name 20. Family Name E-K (239) H (72) 22. Shared Family Name 22. Shared Family Name E-K (24) H (10) Hodgkin (2) 23. Religion 23. Religion z-Missing value reason (465) Source data not available (465) 24. Age at Award Time 24. Age at Award Time 50 - 59 (231) 55 (29) 32. Occupations 32. Occupations Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations (601) Life Scientists (181) Biological Scientists (181) 34. Citizens 34. Citizens Europe (450) Europe, western (223) United Kingdom (110) 37. Worked for College or University 37. Worked for College or University Europe (232) Europe, western (125) United Kingdom (64) Oxford (10) University of Oxford (10) 42. Affilliation with College or University 42. Affilliation with College or University Europe (535) Europe, western (390) United Kingdom (235) Cambridge (118) University of Cambridge (118) Alumni (69) Oxford (69) University of Oxford (69) Alumni (29) Long-term academic staff (16) 43. Affilliation with Secondary School 43. Affilliation with Secondary School Europe (60) Europe, western (50) United Kingdom (27) Beccles (1) Sir John Leman High School (1) 44. Memberships 44. Memberships A-D (656) A (635) Academy of Sciences of the USSR (80) American Academy of Arts and Sciences (531) E-P (571) G (195) German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (179) R-T (460) R (448) Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (64) Royal Society (294) Russian Academy of Sciences (144) 45. Other Awards 45. Other Awards A-B (362) B (132) Bakerian Lecture (30) C-D (404) C (272) Copley Medal (60) E-F (439) F (394) Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chemistry (1) Fellow of the Royal Society (101) K-L (297) L (183) Lenin Peace Prize (5) Lomonosov Gold Medal (23) O-P (364) O (205) Order of Merit (11) Q-Z (398) R (196) Royal Medal (50) complete name: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin nobel prize: chemistry award year: 1964 prize share: Prize share: 1/1 rational: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1964 was awarded to Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin "for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances." biography: Biography laureate facts: Facts laureate lecture: Lecture given name: Dorothy family name: Hodgkin occupation: physicist occupation: chemist occupation: biologist occupation: biochemist occupation: crystallographer field of work: biochemistry field of work: X-ray crystallography work location: University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom description: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was a British biochemist who developed protein crystallography, for which she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964. She advanced the technique of X-ray crystallography, a method used to determine the three-dimensional structures of biomolecules. Among her most influential discoveries are the confirmation of the structure of penicillin that Ernst Boris Chain and Edward Abraham had previously surmised, and then the structure of vitamin B12, for which she became the third woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. In 1969, after 35 years of work and five years after winning the Nobel Prize, Hodgkin was able to decipher the structure of insulin. X-ray crystallography became a widely used tool and was critical in later determining the structures of many biological molecules where knowledge of structure is critical to an understanding of function. She is regarded as one of the pioneer scientists in the field of X-ray crystallography studies of biomolecules. image copyright: Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. image citation: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1964. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1964/summary/> date birth: 1910 date death: 1994 usual name: Dorothy Hodgkin
