Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin: Patterns, Proteins and Peace: A Life in Science

by Georgina Ferry

Book Overview

*Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize and the Marsh Biography Award*

The definitive biography of chemist Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, the only British woman to win a Nobel prize in the sciences to date.

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994) was passionate in her quest to understand the molecules of the living body. She won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1964 for her work on penicillin and Vitamin B12, and her study of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1448217601
• ISBN13: 9781448217601
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Reader
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.0" x 7.7"