| Authorised form of name | Hodgkin; Dorothy Mary Crowfoot (1910 - 1994); chemist |
| Dates | 1910 - 1994 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Cairo, Egypt |
| Date of birth | 12/05/1910 |
| Place of death | 1947 |
| Date of death | 29/07/1994 |
| Occupation | Physicist |
| Research field | Chemical crystallography |
| X-ray crystallography |
| Activity | Education:
Sir John Leman School, Beccles; Newnham College Cambridge; Somerville College, Oxford (1928-1932, Chemistry)
Career:
Research work on sterols, with J D Bernal (FRS 1937) at Cambridge; returned to Oxford and continued work with X-ray analysis; University Lecturer and Demonstrator (1946); University Reader in X-ray crystallography (1956); Wolfson Research Professor of the Royal Society (1960-1977); her students at Somerville College included Margaret Thatcher; Vice-President, Medical Aid Committee for Vietnam (1965), President (1971); second woman to be appointed to the Order of Merit (1965); Chancellor, Bristol University (1970-1988); President, International Union of Crystallography (1972-1975); President, Pugwash conferences on Science and World Affairs (1976-1988); President, British Association for the Advancement of Science (1977-1978)
Medals and prizes:
Nobel Prize (Chemistry) 1964
Honours:
OM 1965 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 20/03/1947 |
| Age at election | 36 |
| Royal Society activity | Medals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1956; Copley Medal 1976
Lectures:
Tercentenary 1960; Bakerian 1972 |
| Relationships | Married (1937) Thomas Lionel Hodgkin (died 1982); three children, Luke Howard (born 1938), Prudence Elizabeth (born 1943), John Robin Tobias (born 1946) |
| Sources | AssocMaterial:
NCUACS 47/3/94 and 135/8/04. Papers and correspondence deposited in the Bodleian Library, Oxford
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2002 vol 48 pp 179-219, plate, by G Dodson FRS
References:
Sir John Cornforth, 'Portrait of Dorothy Hodgkin, OM, FRS' in NR 1982-83 vol 37 pp 1-4, plate
Joan Mason, 'The Women Fellows' Jubilee' in NR 1995 vol 49 pp 125-140
S Ramaseshan, 'Dorothy Hodgkin and the Indian Connection' in NR 1996 vol 50 pp 115-127, plate
J Corden, 'Web of Science History' project in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 383-388
D Blow and S Wallwork, 'Prehistory of the British Crystallographic Association' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 177-186
P Harper, 'Preserving scientific archives: the work of NCUACS' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 227-232 |
| Royal Society code | NA8241 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| M/261 | Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot | |
| HWT/25/6 | Correspondence and papers regarding Chinese research workers in Britain and British visitors to China | August - December 1966 |
| P/0158 | Portrait of Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot | 1980 |
| HWT/25/7 | Correspondence and papers regarding premature return to China (due to Cultural Revolution) of Chinese research workers in Britain | January - September 1967 |
| P/0159 | Drawing, hands of Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot | 1978 |
| IM/GA/WS/2717 | Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot | nd |
| IM/002159 | Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot | November 2003 |
| IM/007145 | Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot | July 1984 |
| P/0226 | Portrait of Hodgkin, Dorothy Crowfoot | 2005 |
| RR/71/232 | Referee's report by Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin, on a paper 'An X-ray study of horse methaemoglobin. II' by Max Ferdinand Perutz | 1948 |
| RR/61/101 | Referee's report by John Desmond Bernal, on a paper 'The crystal structure of insulin. I. The investigation of air-dried insulin crystals' by Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin | December 1937 |
| RR/68/447 | Referee's report by John Monteath Robertson, on a paper 'The crystal structure of cholesteryl iodide' by C H Carlisle and Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin | [1944] |
| RR/72/170 | Referee's report by Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin, on a paper 'The crystal structure of horse met-myoglobin. I. General features: the arrangement of the poly-peptide chains' by John Cowdery Kendrew | 1949 |
| IM/002158 | Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot | nd |
| EC/1947/13 | Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/GA/AR/7132 | Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot | nd |
| IM/004389 | Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot | 2003 |
| IM/007144 | Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot | 1965 |
| IM/007143 | Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot | nd |
| IM/007146 | Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot | nd |
| IM/007142 | Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot | c 1951 |
| RR/66/26 | Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'X-Ray crystallography and the chemistry of the steroids. Part I' by John Desmond Bernal, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin and I Fankuchen | [April 1940] |
| RR/66/25 | Referee's report by Ian Morris Heilbron, on a paper 'X-Ray crystallography and the chemistry of the steroids. Part I' by John Desmond Bernal, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin and I Fankuchen | 15 May 1940 |
| IM/002157 | Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot | nd |
| IM/007147 | Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot | c 1951 |
| P/0152 | Portrait of Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot | 1982 |
| AP/83/13 | Supporting data, regarding 'The structure of vitamin B12. VIII. The crystal structure of vitamin B12-5'-phosphate' by S W Hawkinson, C L Coulter, Marsha L Greaves and Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin | [1970] |
| RR/65/131 | Letter from Archibald Vivian Hill, on an unnamed paper by Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin to the Secretary of the Royal Society | 31 May 1938 |
| AP/82/16 | Supporting data, regarding 'The structure of vitamin B12 V. The structure of the air-dried crystals of vitamin B12' by Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin, June Lindsey, R A Sparks, K N Trueblood and John Graham White | [1962] |
| AP/82/20 | Supporting data, regarding 'The structure of Vitamin B12 VI. The structure of crystals of vitamin B12 grown from and immersed in water' by Clara Brink-Shoemaker, Durward William John Cruickshank, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin, M. Jennifer Kamper and Diana Pilling | [1964] |
| AP/83/18 | Supporting data, regarding 'The structure of vitamin B12. IX. The crystal structure of cobyric acid, factor V 1a' by K Venkatesan, D Dale, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin, C E Nockolds, F H Moore and B H O’Connor | [1971] |