Dorothy Mary Hodgkin was a British
scientist, born Dorothy Crowfoot in
1910. She studied
chemistry at Oxford and Cambridge universities, before becoming a research fellow at
Somerville College, Oxford in
1936, a post which she held until
1977. In
1960 she was appointed Wolfson Research Professor at the
Royal Society. In
1964 she was awarded the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work in
crystallography. She had, among other things, discovered the structure of
penicillin,
vitamin B12 and
insulin.