Dorothy Hodgkin - Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1964
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Dorothy Hodgkin

Prize
Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1964
for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances
Citizenship
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland United Kingdom United Kingdom
Languages
English
date of birth
5/12/1910
place of birth
Cairo
date of death
7/29/1994
place of death
Ilmington
Lived
84 years
position held
  • Chancellor of the University of Bristol
    • start time: 1970
    • end time: 1988
member of
  • Academy of Sciences of the USSR
    • start time: 1976
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1971
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 3/20/1947
  • Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
educated at
  • Somerville College
  • Sir John Leman High School
  • University of Oxford
  • Newnham College
doctoral student
  • Barbara Wharton Low
  • Judith Ann Kathleen Howard
  • Judith Howard
  • Tom Blundell
  • David Sayre
field of work
  • biochemistry
  • chemistry
  • crystallography
  • X-ray crystallography
occupation
  • chemist
  • biochemist
  • biophysicist
  • crystallographer
  • physicist
work location
  • Oxford
  • Cambridge
employer
  • University of Cambridge
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