Dorothy Mary Hodgkin (Crowfoot)

Dorothy Crowfoot was born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1910. She studied chemistry at Somerville College, and became a Fellow and Tutor there in 1934.

She became the first Royal Society Wolfson Research Professor at Oxford in 1960. She was introduced to the study of biologically interesting molecules, at Cambridge.

She determined the structure of penicillin from 1942 to 1945. Also, from 1948 to 1956, she determined the structure of vitamin B12.

 She received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1964, and in 1965 was admitted to the Order of Merit, as well as many other honors.