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Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin

1910 - 1994

Born

12/05/1910

Guizeh, near Cairo, Egypt, Africa

Died

29/07/1994

Ilmington, near Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire, England

Nationality
British
Gender
Female
Date of election for Royal Society fellowship
20/03/1947
Age at the time of election for Royal Society fellowship
36
Occupation
Chemist and crystallographer
Relationships
Parents: John Winter Crowfoot (1873–1958), inspector with the ministry of public instruction for Egypt and the Sudan, later director of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, and Grace Mary (Molly) Hood (1877–1957), authority on ancient textiles. Spouse: (1937) Thomas Lionel Hodgkin (died 1982). Children: Luke Howard (born 1938), Prudence Elizabeth (born 1943), John Robin Tobias (born 1946).

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