Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

by Georgina Ferry
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 11/09/2014

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*Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize and the Marsh Biography Award*


The definitive biography of chemist Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, the only British woman to win a Nobel prize in the sciences to date.


Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910–1994) was passionate in her quest to understand the molecules of the living body. She won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1964 for her work on penicillin and Vitamin B12, and her study of insulin made her a pioneer in protein crystallography. Fully engaged with the political and social currents of her time, Hodgkin experienced radical change in women's education, the globalisation of science, relationships between East and West, and international initiatives for peace.


Georgina Ferry's definitive biography of Britain's first female Nobel prizewinning scientist was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize and the Marsh Biography Award. This revised and updated edition includes a new preface from the author.

ISBN:
9781448214549
9781448214549
Category:
Biography: science
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
11-09-2014
Language:
English
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Georgina Ferry

Georgina Ferry is a science writer and broadcaster. She is the author of biographies and other books on the history of science and technology, as well as reviews and obituaries in the national press.

She has been a staff editor on New Scientist magazine, and a presenter of programmes for BBC Radio 3 and 4. She lives in Oxford.

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