1. Home
  2. Business & Finance
  3. Inventors

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was the 1964 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry.

By Mary Bellis, About.com

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

Dorothy Hodgkin won the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances.

A British biochemist and crystallographer and the 1964 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry for her determination by X-Ray techniques of the structures of biologically important molecules. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin used X-Rays to find the structural layouts of atoms and the overall molecular shape of over 100 molecules including: penicillin, vitamin B-12, vitamin D, and insulin.

Continue with >>> Women Inventors

Explore Inventors

More from About.com

  1. Home
  2. Business & Finance
  3. Inventors
  4. Famous Inventors
  5. Inventor Biography Sites
  6. Inventors A to Z Listings
  7. H Start Inventors
  8. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin - The Work of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

©2008 About.com, a part of The New York Times Company.

All rights reserved.