dorothy mary hodgkin

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Определение dorothy mary hodgkin в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь: orig. Dorothy Mary Crowfoot born May 12, 1910, Cairo, Egypt died July 29, 1994, Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire, Eng. English chemist. After studying at Oxford and Cambridge, she went to work at Oxford. From 1942 to 1949 she worked on a structural analysis of penicillin. In 1948 she and her colleagues made the first X-ray photograph of vitamin B12, one of the most complex nonprotein compounds, and they eventually completely determined its atomic arrangement. In 1969 she completed a similar three-dimensional analysis of insulin. Her work won her a 1964 Nobel Prize. She was chancellor of Bristol University (1970-88) and was known for her work for peace and international scientific cooperation. In 1965 she became the second woman ever awarded the Order of Merit

dorothy mary hodgkin