In 1964, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin won the Chemistry Noble Prize.
Born: 12 May 1910.
Died: 29 July 1994.
Nationality: British.
Education: Somerville College, Oxford (BA) University of Cambridge (PhD).
Known as: Development of protein crystallography, Determining the structure of insulin.
Awards: Royal Medal (1956), Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1964), Order of Merit (1965), EMBO Member (1970), Copley Medal (1976), Dalton Medal (1981), Lomonosov Gold Medal (1982).
Fields: Biochemistry X-ray crystallography.