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*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 Hodgkin (1910-1994) was renowned for her medically-important work on penicillin, vitamin B12 and insulin. Fully engaged with the political and social currents of her time, she participated in some of the greatest upheavals of the 20th century: women's education; the globalization of science; the rise and fall of communism; and international peace movements. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1964 for her work in protein crystallography and remains the only British woman to have won a Nobel Prize in the sciences to date. She was Margaret Thatcher's tutor at Oxford, and lobbied Thatcher against the use of nuclear weapons. Thatcher, meanwhile, had a portrait of Hodgkin up in Downing Street.
A wife, mother, and grandmother, she cared deeply about the well-being of individuals in all cultures, and is a long-standing role model for women in STEM. She used some of her Nobel Prize winning money to set up a nursery at Somerville College, Oxford, to help other women in continue their work and studies in science. Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life is the definitive biography of one of Britain's most brilliant and unique scientists.
This book title, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (Patterns, Proteins and Peace: A Life in Science) - 9781448217601, ISBN: 9781448217601, by Georgina Ferry, published by Bloomsbury USA (January 7, 2020) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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