CHEMIST

Dorothy Hodgkin

1910 - 1994

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Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin (née Crowfoot; 12 May 1910 – 29 July 1994) was a Nobel Prize-winning English chemist who advanced the technique of X-ray crystallography to determine the structure of biomolecules, which became essential for structural biology. Among her most influential discoveries are the confirmation of the structure of penicillin as previously surmised by Edward Abraham and Ernst Boris Chain; and mapping the structure of vitamin B12, for which in 1964 she became the third woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dorothy Hodgkin has received more than 983,129 page views. Her biography is available in 91 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 84 in 2019). Dorothy Hodgkin is the 76th most popular chemist (down from 66th in 2019), the 110th most popular biography from Egypt (down from 100th in 2019) and the most popular Egyptian Chemist.

Dorothy Hodgkin is most famous for her work in the field of X-ray crystallography. This is a technique used to determine the three-dimensional structures of molecules.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Dorothy Hodgkin ranks 76 out of 602. Before her are Julius Lothar Meyer, Francis William Aston, Irving Langmuir, Hermann Staudinger, Heinrich Otto Wieland, and Richard Adolf Zsigmondy. After her are George de Hevesy, Gilbert N. Lewis, Theodore William Richards, James B. Sumner, Hans Adolf Krebs, and Odd Hassel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Dorothy Hodgkin ranks 18. Before her are Django Reinhardt, Konrad Zuse, Jacques Monod, Eric Berne, Chiang Ching-kuo, and Gerda Taro. After her are Walter Schellenberg, Ronald Coase, Dominique Pire, David Niven, Lee Byung-chul, and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. Among people deceased in 1994, Dorothy Hodgkin ranks 25. Before her are Kurt Cobain, Mas Oyama, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Léon Degrelle, Paul Feyerabend, and Jan Tinbergen. After her are Guy Debord, Paul Delvaux, Telly Savalas, Domenico Modugno, Robert Doisneau, and George Peppard.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Dorothy Hodgkin ranks 110 out of 642. Before her are Meritaten (-1400), Kamose (-1600), Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqalani (1372), Shepseskaf (-2600), Seti II (-1300), and Ptolemy VII Neos Philopator (-152). After her are Amasis II (-700), Al-Suyuti (1445), Ka (-3200), Sekhemkhet (-2800), Isetnofret (-1250), and Seqenenre Tao (-1600).

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Among CHEMISTS In Egypt

Among chemists born in Egypt, Dorothy Hodgkin ranks 1. After her are Ahmed Zewail (1946), and Rashad Khalifa (1935).

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