DOROTHY HODGKIN, 84
WON NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY
Author: Associated Press
Date: Sunday, July 31, 1994
Page: 45
Section: OBITUARY
LONDON -- Scientist Dorothy Hodgkin, winner of the Nobel Prize in
chemistry and one of the founders of the Cold War-era Pugwash conference on
nuclear weapons, has died at age 84.
Mrs. Hodgkin, who died Friday at her home in Shipston-on-Stour, is best
known for mapping the molecular structure of penicillin, insulin and vitamin
B-12. Her research on vitamin B-12 won her the 1964 Nobel Prize.
She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1947 for her analysis of
penicillin. In 1956 she produced a three-dimensional analysis of vitamin B12,
essential to the life of red blood cells. In the late 1960s, she created a
three-dimensional map of insulin.
Mrs. Hodgkin was a founding member of Pugwash, the international
organization of scientists who, during the Cold War, tried to further
communication between scientists on both sides of the Iron Curtain.
Pugwash was founded in 1957 in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, to examine problems
related to the development of weapons of mass destruction.
Mrs. Hodgkin was the first woman since Florence Nightingale to become a
member of the Order of Merit, the most prestigious of Britain's royal orders.
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