Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin for Android

11 things about Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

1. The prestigious Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin in 1964 for her use of X-ray crystallography to discover the structures of important biochemical substances, such as B12, insulin and penicillin.

2. With this app students learn about the life and contributions to biological chemistry made by Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin.

3. By tapping on timeline points brings up descriptions of historically significant events and the role the Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin played.

4. The app shows that Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin certainly deserves the place she has earned in the history of science.

5. It discusses her work in X-ray crystallography to reveal the molecular structures of insulin, penicillin and vitamin B12.

6. Traveling to archaeological digs with her farther brought Dorothy to places where she was exposed to a great deal of Islam art.

7. Dorothy Crowfoot was born in Cairo, Egypt.

8. Dorothy developed a keen interest in science.

9. The timeline feature presents key events in the development of our modern understanding of the structure and composition biological molecules.

10. Later at Oxford University she began to work with X-ray crystallography in studying sterols.

11. Her father was a British archaeologist and her mother was a botanist who studied natural history.