INFORMATION about Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

Information about Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin

Dorothy Hodgkin
born Cairo, Egypt May 12, 1910
died Oxfordshire, England July 30, 1994

Professor Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
First Vice President of the BCA 1982 - 1983,
presenting the 1st Dorothy Hodgkin prize to the winner, Durward Cruikshank (left),
on the occasion of her 80th birthday, Bob Diamond then the BCA President (right).

1964 Nobel prize winner
Former BCA Vice President
Royal Society institutes Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowships for young researchers in June 1995
Collected Works in 3 volumes published 1996
1996 Commemorative Postage stamp women of acheivement series
Program for the Memorial Meeting July 1996 and report
Memories of
- Memorial address Dorothy Hodgkin by Max Perutz
- Dorothy Hodgkin by M.Vijayan
- Remembering Dorothy Hodgkin by Anne Sayre
- List of books about her
- Book review Dorothy Hodgkin: a life by Georgina Ferry
BCA Dorothy Hodgkin Prize and Prize lecturers
Dorothy Hodgkin memorial lecture given annually during the Oxford International Festival for Women
Royal Society of Chemistry Landmark plaque erected in Oxford in May 2001 to commemmorate her scientific acheivements.

web site: http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/ AIP Contributions of women to Physics in 20th century, including crystallographers such as Dorothy Hodgkin

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