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Dorothy Hodgkin

1910 - 1994

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Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin (née Crowfoot; 12 May 1910 – 29 July 1994) was a Nobel Prize-winning English chemist who advanced the technique of X-ray crystallography to determine the structure of biomolecules, which became essential for structural biology. Among her most influential discoveries are the confirmation of the structure of penicillin as previously surmised by Edward Abraham and Ernst Boris Chain; and mapping the structure of vitamin B12, for which in 1964 she became the third woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Hodgkin also elucidated the structure of insulin in 1969 after 35 years of work. Hodgkin used the name "Dorothy Crowfoot" until twelve years after marrying Thomas Lionel Hodgkin, when she began using "Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin". Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dorothy Hodgkin is the 71st most popular chemist (up from 76th in 2019), the 66th most popular biography from Egypt (up from 110th in 2019) and the most popular Egyptian Chemist.

Dorothy Hodgkin is most famous for her work in the field of X-ray crystallography. This is a technique used to determine the three-dimensional structures of molecules.

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Among chemists, Dorothy Hodgkin ranks 71 out of 602. Before her are Leopold Ružička, Wendell Meredith Stanley, Henry Hallett Dale, Gerty Cori, Vladimir Prelog, and Gertrude B. Elion. After her are William Giauque, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Karl Ziegler, Hermann Staudinger, Tu Youyou, and Paul Sabatier.

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Among people born in 1910, Dorothy Hodgkin ranks 11. Before her are Ingrid of Sweden, Ramaswamy Venkataraman, Robert K. Merton, Archer Martin, Lee Byung-chul, and Paulette Goddard. After her are Gloria Stuart, Irena Sendler, Jean Genet, Dominique Pire, Jacques Monod, and Django Reinhardt. Among people deceased in 1994, Dorothy Hodgkin ranks 14. Before her are Eugène Ionesco, Elias Canetti, Erik Erikson, Linus Pauling, Burt Lancaster, and Raul Julia. After her are Jeffrey Dahmer, Giulietta Masina, Jan Tinbergen, Kurt Cobain, Harry Nilsson, and Richard Laurence Millington Synge.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Dorothy Hodgkin ranks 66 out of 642. Before her are Cleopatra Selene II (-40), Seqenenre Tao (-1600), Shoshenq I (-1000), Wazner (-3500), Ptolemy VI Philometor (-184), and Apollonius of Rhodes (-295). After her are Saint Sarah (100), Sextus Empiricus (160), Tiye (-1398), Ayman al-Zawahiri (1951), Mary of Egypt (344), and Ptolemy VIII Physcon (-182).

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Among CHEMISTS In Egypt

Among chemists born in Egypt, Dorothy Hodgkin ranks 1. After her are Ahmed Zewail (1946), and Rashad Khalifa (1935).

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