Dorothy Hodgkin Quotes

United Kingdom, Chemist
May 12, 1910 – July, 29, 1994.

Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin OM FRS HonFRSC (12 May 1910 – 29 July 1994) was a British chemist who developed protein crystallography, for which she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964.

The detailed geometry of the coenzyme molecule as a whole is fascinating in its complexity.

Dorothy Hodgkin
Would it not be better if one could really 'see' whether molecules...were just as experiments suggested?

Dorothy Hodgkin

I first met the subject of X-ray diffraction of crystals in the pages of the book W. H. Bragg wrote for school children in 1925, 'Concerning the Nature of Things.'

Dorothy Hodgkin
- Children
- School
- Book
I should not like to leave an impression that all structural problems can be settled by X-ray analysis or that all crystal structures are easy to solve. I seem to have spent much more of my life not solving structures than solving them.

Dorothy Hodgkin
- Life