Nobel celebrates the 109th anniversary of the birth of the third female winner of the Chemistry Award

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The Nobel Prize today celebrates the 109th anniversary of the birth of Dorothy Mary Hodgkin, known professionally as Dorothy Crawfoot Hodgkin, a British biochemist born on May 12, 1910 in Cairo, who died on July 29, 1994, She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964.

Nobel celebrates the birth of Dorothy Mary Hodgkin

Dorothy Marie Hodgkin presented X-ray crystallography, a method used to identify three-dimensional structures of biomolecules. Her most influential discoveries were to confirm the structure or structure of penicillin, which was hypothesized by Ernest Chin and Edward Abraham, and then the structure of vitamin B12 making her the third woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Insulin

Insulin

In 1969, after 35 years of work and five years after winning the Nobel Prize, Dorothy Mary Hodgkin was able to decipher the structure of insulin. One of her most important research topics began in 1934 when she presented a small sample of crystalline insulin by Robert Robinson.

X-ray crystallography became a widely used tool and later became a critical technique in identifying the structures of many biological molecules, since knowledge of a structure is critical to understanding its function. It is considered to be one of the leading scientists in the field of studying the X-ray crystals of biomolecules.

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Dorothy Marie Hodgkin received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 1964 for her work in the field of crystallization, and she won the Cobble Medal in 1976. In 1965 she received the Order of Merit succeeding the Churchill.

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