For my topic of a Famous Historical Figure, I chose to do my paper on Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkins. She is a scientist who discovered, through x-ray crystallography, that you can develop protein crystallography, helped with the advancement of the x-ray crystallography technique which was a key element to studying and understanding the 3 dimensional structures of biomolecules, and she also determined the structure of insulin (Women who changed the world •, 2014).
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was a British biochemist who was born on May 12, 1910 in Cairo, Egypt. Her father, John Winter Crowfoot, worked as a school inspector when he moved to Sudan where he retire in 1926 and focused on archeology. Her mother, Grace Mary Crowfoot, was a botanist in Sudan. …show more content…
A. F. Joseph, he let her study and analyze chemicals. When she left from the visit, she fell completely in love with chemistry and wanted to returned back to school (John Leman School) so she could ask if she could take the chemistry class with the boys. The school had no problems with her taking the course with them and she knew then and there that she wanted to be a chemist.
At age 15, Dorothy was about to give up on chemistry and change what she wanted to study until she was given a book called “Concerning the Nature of Things” by Sir William Henry Bragg. After reading the book, she was interested in chemistry again and very excited that she could be able to study properties of atoms and molecules using x-rays ( home, 2016). Dorothy had much love for chemistry and was willing to learn as much as she could to make herself knowledgeable with everything it had to offer.
When Dorothy was 18 years old she began to start on her chemistry degree at Summerville College, by going to Oxford University of Cambridge to earn her Ph.D. She had a supervisor named John Bernal, who was with her when she discovered how x-ray crystallography can be used for the structure of proteins. Dorothy also assisted Bernal when he used the x-ray crystallography technique for Pepsin(home, 2016). This was the first time that this method was used for any biological
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was a British biochemist who was born on May 12, 1910 in Cairo, Egypt. Her father, John Winter Crowfoot, worked as a school inspector when he moved to Sudan where he retire in 1926 and focused on archeology. Her mother, Grace Mary Crowfoot, was a botanist in Sudan. …show more content…
A. F. Joseph, he let her study and analyze chemicals. When she left from the visit, she fell completely in love with chemistry and wanted to returned back to school (John Leman School) so she could ask if she could take the chemistry class with the boys. The school had no problems with her taking the course with them and she knew then and there that she wanted to be a chemist.
At age 15, Dorothy was about to give up on chemistry and change what she wanted to study until she was given a book called “Concerning the Nature of Things” by Sir William Henry Bragg. After reading the book, she was interested in chemistry again and very excited that she could be able to study properties of atoms and molecules using x-rays ( home, 2016). Dorothy had much love for chemistry and was willing to learn as much as she could to make herself knowledgeable with everything it had to offer.
When Dorothy was 18 years old she began to start on her chemistry degree at Summerville College, by going to Oxford University of Cambridge to earn her Ph.D. She had a supervisor named John Bernal, who was with her when she discovered how x-ray crystallography can be used for the structure of proteins. Dorothy also assisted Bernal when he used the x-ray crystallography technique for Pepsin(home, 2016). This was the first time that this method was used for any biological