Dorothy Crowfoot was born in Cairo on May 12th, 1910, and died 1994. She became interested in chemistry and in crystals at about the age of 10. Most of her childhood she spent with her sister at Geldeston in Norfolk, from where she went by day to the Sir John Leman school, Beccles, from 1921-28. Dorothy visited the Sudan as a girl in 1923. Dorothy was a british chemist who developed protein crystallography. She won the Nobel prize of chemistry in 1964.She became interested in chemistry and in crystals at about the age of 10. Dorothy Crowfoot were allowed to join the boys doing chemistry at school, with Miss Deeley as their teacher; by the end of her school career, she had decided to study chemistry and possibly biochemistry at university. She went to Oxford and Somerville College from 1928-32 and became devoted to Margery Fry, then Principal of the College. For a brief time during her first year, she combined archaeology and chemistry, analysing glass tesserae from Jerash. …show more content…
His health was too bad for active military service, so he continued throughout World War II, returning on weekends to Oxford, where his wife stayedworking on penicillin. They had three children, born in 1938, 1941, and 1946. Thomas Hodgkin subsequently spent extended periods of time in West Africa, where he was an enthusiastic supporter and chronicler of the emerging postcolonial states. Following an infection after the birth of her first child, Dorothy Hodgkin developed chronic rheumatoid arthritis at age 28. This left her hands swollen and distorted, yet she continued to carry out the delicate manipulations necessary to mount and photograph the tiny crystals, smaller than a grain of salt, that she used in her