Her principal qualifications for writing a biography of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin are that she, like Dorothy before her, lives in Oxford and is clearly familiar with the Byzantine workings of the ...

Rosalind Franklin and Dorothy Hodgkin made important breakthroughs in science, including many discoveries that are vital to our lives today. Performing early X-ray analysis on the DNA molecule.

Chief Executive of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Dr Robert Parker, spoke at the plaque presentation and said: "I am delighted to be here again, to honour and celebrate the work of Dorothy Crowfoot ...

She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964 in recognition of her discovery. The model gives a three dimensional map of part of one of the crystal salts of penicillin. The contours are ...