Dodson, Guy, Jenny P. Glusker, and David Sayre (eds.). 1981. Structural Studies on Molecules of Biological Interest: A Volume in Honour of Professor Dorothy Hodgkin. Oxford: The Clarendon Press.
Obituary notices
Dodson, Guy (Structure 2: 891-893, 1994)
Glusker, Jenny P. (Protein Science 3: 2465-2469, 1994)
Glusker, Jenny P., and Margaret J. Adams (Physics Today 48: 80-81, 1995)
Johnson, Louise N. (FRS), and David Phillips (Nature Structural Biology 1: 573-576, 1994)
Perutz, Max F. (Quarterly Review of Biophysics 27: 333-337, 1994)
Nature 371: 20, 1994.
External links
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin: A Founder of Protein Crystallography (http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/hodgkin.html)
Nobel Prize 1964 page (http://nobelprize.org/chemistry/laureates/1964/index.html)
In 1932 Dorothy Crowfoot graduated from Somerville College at Oxford with a degree in chemistry (her interest in chemistry and crystals began when she was young and was encouraged by her parents and their associates to develop this interest).
Hodgkin was able to determine that the insulin molecule is a six-part molecule; roughly triangular in shape, consisting of three pairs of molecules that enclose two zinc atoms within the core.
Hodgkin continued to travel extensively and touched every possible corner of the world throughout her life despite her lifelong struggles with rheumatoid arthritis that did not respond to treatment.
In 1932 Dorothy Crowfoot graduated from Somerville College at Oxford with a degree in chemistry (her interest in chemistry and crystals began when she was young and was encouraged by her parents and their associates to develop this interest).
Hodgkin was able to determine that the insulin molecule is a six-part molecule; roughly triangular in shape, consisting of three pairs of molecules that enclose two zinc atoms within the core.
Hodgkin inherited these ideals from her mother who was strongly opposed to war because of the deaths of her four brothers.
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