Chemist

Dorothy Hodgkin

British chemist

1910 - 1994

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Her biography is available in 92 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 91 in 2024). Dorothy Hodgkin is the 71st most popular chemist (up from 76th in 2024), the 66th most popular biography from Egypt (up from 110th 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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Dorothy Hodgkin's biography appears in 92 language editions of Wikipedia, more than 98% of all Chemists.

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Dorothy Hodgkin climbed 1,861 places in Pantheon's global HPI ranking, from #5,638 to #3,777.

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Dorothy Hodgkin ranks #9 among 223 notable people born in Cairo, Egypt, inside the top 5% by HPI.

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Among Chemists

Among chemists, Dorothy Hodgkin ranks 71 out of 610. Before her are Leopold Ružička, Wendell Meredith Stanley, Henry Hallett Dale, Gerty Cori, Vladimir Prelog, and Gertrude B. Elion. After her are William Giauque, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Karl Ziegler, Hermann Staudinger, Tu Youyou, and Paul Sabatier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Dorothy Hodgkin ranks 11. Before her are Ingrid of Sweden, Ramaswamy Venkataraman, Robert K. Merton, Archer Martin, Lee Byung-chul, and Paulette Goddard. After her are Gloria Stuart, Irena Sendler, Jean Genet, Dominique Pire, Jacques Monod, and Django Reinhardt. Among people deceased in 1994, Dorothy Hodgkin ranks 14. Before her are Eugène Ionesco, Elias Canetti, Erik Erikson, Linus Pauling, Burt Lancaster, and Raul Julia. After her are Jeffrey Dahmer, Giulietta Masina, Jan Tinbergen, Kurt Cobain, Harry Nilsson, and Richard Laurence Millington Synge.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Dorothy Hodgkin ranks 66 out of 773. Before her are Cleopatra Selene II (-40), Seqenenre Tao (-1600), Shoshenq I (-1000), Wazner (-3500), Ptolemy VI Philometor (-184), and Apollonius of Rhodes (-295). After her are Saint Sarah (100), Sextus Empiricus (160), Tiye (-1398), Ayman al-Zawahiri (1951), Mary of Egypt (344), and Ptolemy VIII Physcon (-182).

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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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