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Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin;
	Order of Merit medal of Dorothy Hodgkin, ; displayed in the Royal Society, London, 2004.
Born	Dorothy Mary Crowfoot; 12 May 1910; Cairo, Egypt
Died	29 July 1994 (aged 84); Ilmington, Warwickshire, England
Nationality	British
Education	Sir John Leman Grammar School
Alma mater	Somerville College, Oxford (BA); University of Cambridge (PhD);
Known for	Development of protein crystallography; Determining the structure of insulin;
Children	Luke, Elizabeth, and Toby
Awards	Royal Medal (1956); Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1964); Order of Merit (1965); EMBO Member (1970); Copley Medal (1976); Lomonosov Gold Medal (1982);
	Scientific career
Fields	Biochemistry; X-ray crystallography
Thesis	X-ray crystallography and the chemistry of the sterols (1937)
Doctoral students	Judith Howard; Michael N.G. James;
Other notable students	Jack D. Dunitz (postdoc); Margaret Thatcher (undergraduate); Tom Blundell (postdoc); Guy Dodson (postdoc);

Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin (12 May 1910 – 29 July 1994), was a British chemist. She developed protein crystallography. Hodgkin received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964.

Dorothy Hodgkin
Order of Merit medal of Dorothy Hodgkin, displayed in the Royal Society, London, 2004.
Born	Dorothy Mary Crowfoot (1910-05-12)12 May 1910 Cairo, Egypt
Died	29 July 1994(1994-07-29) (aged 84) Ilmington, Warwickshire, England
Nationality	British
Education	Sir John Leman Grammar School
Alma mater	Somerville College, Oxford (BA) University of Cambridge (PhD)
Known for	Development of protein crystallography Determining the structure of insulin
Children	Luke, Elizabeth, and Toby
Awards	Royal Medal (1956) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1964) Order of Merit (1965) EMBO Member (1970) Copley Medal (1976) Lomonosov Gold Medal (1982)
Scientific career
Fields	Biochemistry X-ray crystallography
Thesis	X-ray crystallography and the chemistry of the sterols (1937)
Doctoral students	Judith Howard Michael N.G. James
Other notable students	Jack D. Dunitz (postdoc) Margaret Thatcher (undergraduate) Tom Blundell (postdoc) Guy Dodson (postdoc)