Dorothy Hodgkin, a British X-ray crystallography, which won the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering work to determine the structures molecular complex organic molecules, was born on 10 May 1910. Hodgkin began studying sterols in 1932, when the rays were used as x to confirm that organic chemists already knew a chemical structure. Hodgkin improvements in X-ray crystallography high technology to an important analytical tool.
In 1934, Hodgkin had correctly analyzed the iodide cholesterol, the first complex organic molecule completely determined by X-ray crystallography His lab came later with structures for penicillin, which influenced the development of antibiotics and vitamin B-12, which determined its group with one of the first electronic computers. Hodgkin, who spent most of his career at the University of Oxford and the University of Bristol, died July 30, 1994.
[Source:RoyPorterEd The Biographical Dictionary of scientists (Oxford University Press, ed. 2, 1994).]
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