DOROTHY HODGKIN'S 104th Birthday
Today, Google doodle is celebrating 104th Birthday of Dorothy Hodgkin, a British Chemist credited with the development in Protein Crystallography, She advanced the technique of X-Ray Crystallography for the study of Biomolecule, on of the most recognized discover was structure of Penicillin then structure of Vitamin B12, She was the third women to be awarded with prestigious Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Discoveries of Hodgkin's
Dorothy Hodgkin's was particular a specialist analyzing the three dimensional structures of Biomolecules with the help of X-Ray Crystallography
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| Molecular Structure of Penicillin by Dorothy Mary Hodgkin's (1945) |
Discoveries of Hodgkin's
Dorothy Hodgkin's was particular a specialist analyzing the three dimensional structures of Biomolecules with the help of X-Ray Crystallography
- In 1945 working with C.H Carlisle she published first structure of Steroid
- In 1945 she and here colleague solved the structure of Penicillin, demonstrating it contains B-Lactum ring, although the research was not published till 1954
- In 1954 she and her colleague start publishing their research analysis on Vitamin B12
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| Google Doodle Celebrating Dorothy Hodgkin's 104th Birthday on 12 May 2014 |
Source: Wikipedia/Dorothy Mary Hodgkin's
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