Born: May 12, 1910, Cairo, Egypt
Died: July 29, 1994, Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire, England
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was a British chemist and Nobel laureate, best known for her use of X-ray diffraction to study the structure of macromolecules. She was born in Cairo, and educated at Somerville College, University of Oxford. In 1960, she was named a research professor of the Royal Society. She was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in chemistry for determining the structure of biochemical compounds essential in combating pernicious anaemia.
