Dorothy Hodgkin

Dorothy Hodgkin (born May 12, 1910, in Cairo, passed away on July 29, 1994, in Ilmington) was a British biologist, chemist, physicist, and biochemist. She held citizenship in the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Hodgkin was educated at Somerville College, Oxford; University of Oxford; Newnham College, Cambridge; and University of Cambridge. Her doctoral advisor was John Desmond Bernal, and she mentored doctoral students Judith Howard, Tom Blundell, and Barbara Low.

Born to John Winter Crowfoot and Grace Mary Crowfoot, she spent her early years in Egypt. Throughout her career, Hodgkin received numerous accolades for her work. Among them were the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the Lenin Peace Prize.