The medicinal potential of penicillin was accidentally discovered ... using X-ray crystallography by the Oxford research scientist Dorothy Hodgkin who took up the problem in 1942.

On 6 May we celebrated the life and work of Dorothy Hodgkin by awarding a National Chemical Landmark ... discoveries were the confirmation of the three-dimensional structures of penicillin, vitamin ...

Though born in the twentieth century, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin had a typical late-nineteenth century upbringing. She was born in Cairo, Egypt, then a British colony. When Hodgkin was four ...

Rosalind Franklin and Dorothy Hodgkin made important breakthroughs ... atoms are joined together in the first modern antibiotic: penicillin. Discovering the formula and investigating the structure ...

The medicinal potential of penicillin was accidentally discovered ... using X-ray crystallography by the Oxford research scientist Dorothy Hodgkin who took up the problem in 1942.