Dorothy crowfoot hodgkin kändaste upptäckt “Captured for life by chemistry and by crystals,” as she described it, Dorothy Hodgkin turned a childhood interest in crystals into the ground-breaking use of X-ray crystallography to “see” the molecules of penicillin, vitamin B12 and insulin. Her work not only allowed researchers to better understand and manufacture life-saving substances, it also made crystallography an indispensable. 1 nobelpriset i kemi vinnare 2 March 16, In , a scientist in Oxford received a challenge from a colleague—to identify the chemical and physical structure of penicillin, the antibiotic being developed by American and British scientists in secret as a means to support the war effort. 3 kemipris 1982 4 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin "for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances". 5 Penicillin To Hodgkin’s most important contributions to the science of chemistry belongs presumably the determination of the structures of penicillin, insulin, and vitamin B She determined the exact structure of penicillin in 6 Main It would be impossible to write anything about Britain's only female, science Nobel Laureate — Dorothy Hodgkin (Fig. 1) — without some reference to her early life (see Timeline). 7 kemipris 2014 8 Nobelpristagare Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkins liv och verk står i fokus i avdelningen om molekyler och strukturer. 9 gångna året ”har gjort den viktigaste kemiska upptäckt eller förbättring”. 10 When Hodgkin graduated from Oxford in , jobs were scarce. She found a position in an x-ray crystallography lab studying biological crystals. This technique helped tease out the structure of. 11