#dorothy crowfoot hodgkin

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DR. DOROTHY CROWFOOT HODGKIN // BIOCHEMIST

“She was a biochemist and third woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her determinations by X-Ray techniques of the structures of important, biochemical substances. She was born to British archeologists in Egypt. When she returned to England for school, she was one of only two girls allowed to study Chemistry with the boys. She is credited with the development of protein crystallization and discovered three-dimensional biomolecular structures. She also determined the structures of Penicillin, Vitamin B12 and Insulin by perfecting x-ray crystallography techniques.”

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Birthdays 5.12

Beer Birthdays

Louis Hennepin (1626)

Frank J. Hahne, Jr. (1883)

Brit Antrim

Mirella Amato

Noah Regnery (1983)

Five Favorite Birthdays

George Carlin; comedian (1937)

Leslie Charteris; writer (1907)

Emilio Estevez; actor (1961)

Katharine Hepburn; actor (1907)

Tom Snyder; television talk show host (1936)

Famous Birthdays

Malin Akerman; actor (1978)

Mary Kay Ash; cosmetics entrepreneur (1915)

Burt Bacharach; songwriter (1929)

Stephen Baldwin; actor (1966)

Yogi Berra; baseball player, coach & manager (1925)

Jason Biggs; actor (1978)

Bruce Boxleitner; actor (1950)

Gabriel Byrne; actor (1950)

Kid Creole; rock musician (1951)

Ian Dury; English rock singer (1942)

Gabriel Faure; French composer (1845)

Kim Fields; actress (1969)

William Giauque; Canadian-American chemist (1895)

Kim Greist; actress (1958)

Tony Hawk; skateboarder (1968)

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin; chemist (1910)

Edward Lear; English writer, artist (1812)

Henry Cabot Lodge; politician (1850)

J. E. H. MacDonald; English-Canadian painter (1873)

Ian McLagan; English keyboard player & songwriter (1945)

Florence Nightingale; English nurse (1820)

Millie Perkins; actress (1938)

Ving Rhames; actor (1959)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti; English poet & artist (1828)

Homer Simpson (1956)

Howard K. Smith; television journalist (1914)

Billy Squier; pop musician (1950)

Frank Stella; artist (1936)

Tony Strobl; comics artist and animator (1915)

Joachim von Sandrart; German painter (1606)

Vanessa Williams; actress (1963)

Steve Winwood; pop singer (1948)

[una-gran-mujer]

alguien de respetar

A los 24 años le diagnosticaron artritis reumatoide en sus articulaciones, una enfermedad para la que entonces no había tratamiento y, a pesar de estar en silla de ruedas, quiso seguir trabajando. A los 37, fue admitida en la Real Sociedad de Londres (Royal Society of London), la asociación científica nacional de mayor prestigio que, con 287 años de historia, elegía sólo por tercera vez a una mujer.

Cuando se jubiló, en 1977, se dedicó a viajar, impartiendo conferencias y participando en debates a favor de la paz y el desarme nuclear.

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sabías que dorothy crowfoot hodgkin

nació en El Cairo pero desde pequeña vivió en Londres. Estudió en la Universidad de Oxford y su infancia estuvo marcada por la Primera Guerra Mundial. Conocida sobre todo por el uso de la difracción de rayos X para el estudio de la estructura de macromoléculas.

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Providing In-Depth Horoscope and Personality Analysis for May 12 Birthdays

They are individuals with a cordial, very serene and respectful disposition. Close to home, delicate: they show dependability in their connections. They can adjust to life circumstances. They can accomplish huge advantages through associations with others. Genuine companions will help you particularly. They can resolve their lives in an agreeable manner. They are truly keen on singing and music. Because of these interests, they even become craftsmen, painters, or scholars. They show extraordinary adroitness in manual work, which permits them to acquire amazing outcomes in the applied expressions. They can likewise be astounding specialists. Your endeavors and difficult work will ultimately be delegated with progress. They have a fundamental energy in overabundance, and they have it in sports, love or work. A side interest that can hurt them is gastronomic, in light of the fact that it could cause liver or kidney illnesses. Likewise, they frequently show a propensity to put on weight. People brought into the world at sunrise are better and stronger. Imperfections: The lacking sort rapidly ejects out of resentment. He is eccentric, constrained by his interests. Albeit languid, he is fit for playing around. Imperious, excessively basic. Providing In-Depth Horoscope and Personality Analysis for May 12 Birthdays 

 Assuming your birthday is on May 12, your zodiac sign is Taurus May 12 - character and character character: immaculate, kind, determined, erratic, forceful, antagonistic; calling: humanist, nurture, writer; colors: purple, brown, white; stone: lapis lazuli; creature: snail; plant: nasturtium; fortunate numbers: 10,15,23,26,39,54 very fortunate number: 3 Occasions and observances - May 12 Worldwide Fibromyalgia Day. Worldwide Nursing Day. Worldwide Day of the Section of Beginning wine development. May 12 VIP Birthday. Who was conceived that very day as you? 1900: Pedro Puig Adam, Spanish mathematician (f. 1960). 1900: Helene Weigel, German entertainer (d. 1971). 1907: Katharine Hepburn, American entertainer (d. 2003). 1910: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, English scientific expert, 1964 Nobel Prize victor for science (d. 1994). 1910: Johan Ferrier, Surinamese president (d. 2010). 1910: Giulietta Simionato, Italian soprano (d. 2010). 1913: Jamelao, Brazilian samba player (f. 2008). 1914: Bertus Aafjes, Dutch author (d. 1993). 1918: Julius Rosenberg, American covert agent (d. 1953). 1918: Mary Kay Debris, organizer behind the beauty care products organization Mary Kay Beauty care products (d. 2001). 1920: Vilდ©m Flusser, Czech author (d. 1991). 1921: Joseph Beuys, German craftsman (d. 1986). 1922: Marco Denevi, Argentine author (f. 1998). 1924: Claribel Alegrდ­a, Nicaraguan author. 1925: Yogi Berra, American baseball player. 1926: Luis Molowny, Spanish footballer and mentor (d. 2010). 1928: Burt Bacharach, American arranger. 1929: Sam Nujoma, Namibian legislator. 1929: დ?gnes Heller, Hungarian logician. 1930: Jesდºs Franco, Spanish movie producer (d. 2013). 1930: Tirofijo (Manuel Marulanda Vდ©lez), Colombian guerrilla, commandant of the FARC (d. 2008). 1935: Felipe Alou, Dominican baseball player. 1936: Guillermo Endara Galimany, Panamanian legislator and attorney, president somewhere in the range of 1989 and 1994. 1936: Honest Stella, American painter. 1937: George Carlin, American comic (d. 2008). 1942: Michel Fugain, French vocalist. 1945: Alan Ball, English footballer. 1945: Claudia Sauce, Spanish entertainer brought into the world in Zaire. 1948: Guillermo Pდ©rez Villalta, Spanish painter. 1948: Richard Riehle, American entertainer. 1948: Steve Winwood, English performer, of the band Traffic. 1950: Gabriel Byrne, Irish entertainer. 1958: Eric Artist, American performer, of the groups Kiss and Alice Cooper. 1959: Ving Rhames, American entertainer. 1962: Emilio Estდ©vez, American entertainer. 1962: Brett Gurewitz, American guitarist. 1962: Einar Arnaldur Melax, Icelandic artist and writer, of the band The Elgar Sisters. 1963: Stefano Modena, Italian Equation 1 driver. 1963: Gavin Hood, South African producer. 1963: Beatriz Valdდ©s, Cuban-Venezuelan theater, film and TV entertainer. 1966: Stephen Baldwin, American entertainer. 1966: Bebel Gilberto, Brazilian artist. 1966: Deborah Kara Unger, Canadian entertainer. 1967: Paul D'Amour, American bassist, of the band Device. 1968: Tony Bird of prey, American skater. 1970: Samantha Mathis, American entertainer. 1971: Alejandro Irarragorri, Mexican money manager. 1972: Antonio Bosch Conde, Spanish author. 1972: Yadhira Carrillo, Mexican entertainer. 1975: Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby player. 1978: Sied van Riel, Dutch DJ and maker 1978: Jason Biggs, American entertainer. 1978: Malin Akerman, Swedish entertainer, model and vocalist. 1979: Joaquim Rodrდ­guez, Spanish cyclist. 1980: Keith Bogans, American b-ball player. 1980: Silvestre Dangond, Colombian vocalist lyricist of Vallenata music. 1980: Paula Woyzechowsky, Venezuelan entertainer and model. 1980: Alexandra de la Mora, Mexican entertainer. 1981: Rami Malek, American entertainer. 1981: Erica Campbell, American model. 1981: Andre Brown, American ball player. 1983: Alina Kabდ¡yeva, Russian athlete. 1983: Axel Hervelle, Belgian ball player. 1983: Domhnall Gleeson, Irish entertainer. 1984: Justin Williams, American ball player. 1985: Jaime Gavilდ¡n Martდ­nez, Spanish footballer. 1985: Paolo Goltz, Argentine footballer. 1986: Emily VanCamp, Canadian entertainer. 1986: Mouhamed Sene, Senegalese ball player. 1986: Victor Liz, Dominican ball player. 1988: Marcelo Vieira, Brazilian soccer player. 1991: Joe Dombrowski, American cyclist. 1992: Malcolm David Kelley, American entertainer. 1995: Luke Benward, American entertainer.

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The Philosopher Who Believes in Living Things February 28, 2023

Jane Bennett argues that the stuff that surrounds us isn’t inert—it has a will of its own.

"...she likes to “take perspectives that seem implausible and find the good intuitions embodied in them, and then go with it,” she said. “I don’t believe crystals have the power to do this or that, in any New Age way,” she continued. “But what’s the intuition that prompted it?” The intuition behind New Agey crystal enthusiasm involves a sense of the fascination crystals create in us. They have inserted themselves into human civilization in any number of ways—as dishware, ornamentation, and aids to worship, as writing instruments (graphite is a crystal), and as a primary material in microchips. The study of their unique structure has been important to various branches of scientific research. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, a crystallographer who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, in 1964, described herself as “captured for life by chemistry and by crystals.” Even in Hodgkin’s telling, the crystals did the capturing. Perhaps the New Age crystal enthusiast and the experimental scientist have something in common."

READ MORE https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/the-philosopher-who-believes-in-living-things

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Model of the Structure of Penicillin, by Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, Oxford, ca. 1945 [Based on X-ray crystallography work by Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin and Barbara Wharton Low (Oxford) and C. W. Bunn and A. Turner-Jones (I.C.I. Alkali Division, Northwich)] [© History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, Oxford]

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The Exceptional life of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin 

When she got married, she was asked to stand down from her fellowship at college. Eventually this was changed, and she also managed to be awarded maternity leave. She was the first woman to have that at the University of Oxford. It paved the way for other women who wanted to have a fulfilled scientific life and also to have a family. 

GEORGINA FERRY: After Dorothy's first child was born, she suffered an attack of acute rheumatoid arthritis and left her with distorted hands and feet. As she got older, the arthritis did recur but she didn't let it hold her back. Dorothy was very much engaged in international issues and so she was vehemently opposed to the war in Vietnam and indeed visited north Vietnam. She did travel extensively and she made a point of visiting, first of all, the Soviet Union, and subsequently China. It was the height of the Cold War, but scientific relations continued and she was always very keen to make contact. Internationalism was a very big part of her make-up. 

JUDITH HOWARD: Dorothy remains the only woman scientist in this country to win a Nobel prize. The determination of the structure of vitamin B12 has been considered the crowning triumph of x-ray crystallographic analysis. 

GEORGINA FERRY: The Daily Mail ran the headline 'Housewife wins Nobel prize'. The reaction of newspapers in the 60s whenever women achieved anything was absolutely appalling.

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Women have historically been underrepresented in science. With a few notable exceptions, the scientific discoveries and advances made by women are largely overlooked or overshadowed by those of their male counterparts. So let’s take a look at some of those women who made a lasting impact in science:

Maria Mitchell was the first female astronomer in America, discovered a new comet in 1847, and taught many young women astronomers at Vassar. She became the first woman to be employed full time by the US Nautical Almanac.

Lise Meitner, a protégé of Max Planck, headed the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry between the wars and was awarded the prestigious Fermi Prize together with Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann for her work in developing the field of nuclear fission. This process led to the development of nuclear weapons, which she refused to work on.

Gertrude B. Elion used her master’s degree in chemistry to secure a job at Burroughs-Wellcome (now GlaxoSmithKline) developing cancer treatment drugs. She never obtained a formal PhD, but received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1988 with George Hitchings and Sir James Black for developing important new principles of drug treatment.

Maria Goeppert-Mayer was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 together with Johannes Jensen and Eugene P. Wigner for her work on nuclear shell theory. Until now, she is the only woman to have won the prize in theoretical physics. She collaborated with a host of physicists during the Second World War to further their projects that were helping the Allied Forces develop weaponry.

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin spent her entire academic career at Oxford University researching the complex organic molecules using x-ray diffraction analysis. She published the three-dimensional structure of penicillin and insulin, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1964 for her determination of the structure of the vitamin B12.

These women in STEM achieved great scientific advances despite the odds being against them. They should act as role models for other young women endeavouring studies and embarking on careers in any of the sciences.

Image credit: Women scientists: standing: Miss Nellie A. Brown; L to R: Miss Lucia McCollock, Miss Mary K. Bryan, Miss Florence Hedges by National Photo Company. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.

[womenruntheworld]

A Dozen Women Scientists You’ve Never Heard Of

Dr. Alice Hamilton: pioneer in industrial medicine in the U.S Dr. Florence Rena Sabin: pioneer in the movement to change the aim of medical study from the cure to the prevention of disease. Dr. Lise Meitner: Pioneer in nuclear physics. First scientist to recognize that the atom could be split to release tremendous amounts of energy. Dr. Leta S. Holilngworth: Pioneer in the science of clinical psychology. An early fighter for women's rights. Dr. Rachel Fuller Brown: Chemist. Co-discoverer of the antibiotic nystatin, the first antibiotic effective against fungus diseases. Dr. Gladys Anderson Emerson: The first to isolate vitamin E from wheat germ oil and study its functions. Studied the possible relationship of nutrition to cancer and arteriosclerosis. Dr. Maria Goeppert Mayer: Nobel Prize winner in physics fro her shell theory of the nucleus of the atom. Dr. Myra Adele Logan: Pioneer in medicine. First woman surgeon to operate on the heart. First black woman to be elected a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons Dr. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin: Nobel Prize winner in chemistry in 1964. Determined the structure of important chemical compounds of the body by cyrstallography. Dr. Jane C. Wright: Pioneer of chemotherapy. First black woman to be appointed to a high post in medical administration. Dr. Rosalyn S. Yalow: Nobel Prize winner in medicine, 1977, for her discovery of radioimmunoassay Dr. Sylvia Earle Mead: Marine biologist who led the first US team of female aquanauts in the Tektite Underwater Research Project 

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Rest in peace, Dorothy Hodgkin.  Awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work in X-ray crystallography, Hodgkin also confirmed the structure of penicillin and deciphered the structure of insulin during her long career as a chemist.  Born in Cairo to an educator father and archaeologist mother, Hodgkin was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis at the age of 24, was acquainted (through her husband) with Kwame Nkrumah, and (rather unfortunately) wrote the foreword of a book purported to be by Elena Ceausescu.  Nevertheless, she was the only woman honored by the Royal Mail in its Royal Society commemorative stamps issue (above, right) (she was elected as a Fellow in 1947), and her contributions to our scientific understanding of the world continue to inspire and influence contemporary and future scientists.  She died on this date in 1994 at the age of 84.

Stamp details: Stamp on left: Issued on: August 6, 1996 From: London, England MC #1647

Stamp on right: Issued on: February 25, 2010 From: London, England MC #2896

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Birthdays 5.12

Beer Birthdays

Louis Hennepin (1626)

Frank J. Hahne, Jr. (1883)

Brit Antrim

Mirella Amato

Noah Regnery (1983)

Five Favorite Birthdays

George Carlin; comedian (1937)

Leslie Charters; writer (1907)

Emilio Estevez; actor (1961)

Katharine Hepburn; actor (1907)

Tom Snyder; television talk show host (1936)

Famous Birthdays

Malin Akerman; actor (1978)

Mary Kay Ash; cosmetics entrepreneur (1915)

Burt Bacharach; songwriter (1929)

Stephen Baldwin; actor (1966)

Yogi Berra; New York Yankees C (1925)

Jason Biggs; actor (1978)

Bruce Boxleitner; actor (1950)

Gabriel Byrne; actor (1950)

Kid Creole; rock musician (1951)

Ian Dury; English rock singer (1942)

Gabriel Faure; composer (1845)

Kim Fields; actor (1969)

Kim Greist; actor (1958)

Tony Hawk; skateboarder (1968)

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin; chemist (1910)

Edward Lear; writer, artist (1812)

Henry Cabot Lodge; politician (1850)

Florence Nightingale; English nurse (1820)

Ving Rhames; actor (1959)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti; poet, artist (1828)

Homer Simpson (1956)

Howard K. Smith; television journalist (1914)

Billy Squier; pop musician (1950)

Frank Stella; artist (1936)

Vanessa Williams; actor (1963)

Steve Winwood; pop singer (1948)

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¿Quien fue Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin?

nació en El Cairo pero desde pequeña vivió en Londres. Estudió en la Universidad de Oxford y su infancia estuvo marcada por la Primera Guerra Mundial. Conocida sobre todo por el uso de la difracción de rayos X para el estudio de la estructura de macromoléculas.

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Dorothy Hodgkin (then Crowfoot) ca. 1920s, as she was when she excavated at Jerash in her late teens (with thanks to the Crowfoot family for providing this image - All Rights Reserved)

TrowelBlazers: ���For awesomeness it is hard to beat Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910 – 1994). She won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1964, the first British woman scientist to do so, for her X-ray crystallographic studies of penicillin and vitamin B12..... she still remains the only woman in Britain to win a science Nobel.“

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accadde...oggi: nel 1910 nasce Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, di Marika De Acetis

accadde…oggi: nel 1910 nasce Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, di Marika De Acetis

Dorothy Crowfoot nacque il 12 maggio 1910 al Il Cairo, dove suo padre, John Winter Crowfoot, lavorava come archeologo; da ragazza aiutò i genitori negli scavi di una chiesa bizantina in Transgiordania.

Si interessò precocemente alla mineralogie e alla chimica, all’età di soli dieci anni. In quel periodo si trovava con i suoi genitori in Sudan,e un amico di famiglia, il Dott. A.F. Joseph la…

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D O R O T H Y  H O D G K I N  

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‘ at the sir john leman school in beccles, england, dorothy crowfoot hodgkin and her friend norah pusey, were the only two  girls in the chemistry class. they had to petition to take chemistry  rather than ‘domestic science’ with the other girls. ‘

in 1964 she won the nobel prize in chemistry.