*Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize and the Marsh Biography Award
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The definitive biography of chemist Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, the only British woman to win a Nobel prize in the sciences to date.
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910–1994) was passionate in her quest to understand the molecules of the living body. She won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1964 for her work on penicillin and Vitamin B12, and her study of insulin made her a pioneer in protein crystallography. Fully engaged with the political and social currents of her time, Hodgkin experienced radical change in women’s education, the globalisation of science, relationships between East and West, and international initiatives for peace.
Georgina Ferry's definitive biography of Britain’s first female Nobel prizewinning scientist was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize and the Marsh Biography Award. This revised and updated edition includes a new preface from the author.
By:
Georgina Ferry (Author)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 198mm,
Width: 129mm,
Weight: 420g
ISBN: 9781448217601
ISBN 10: 1448217601
Pages: 560
Publication Date: 07 January 2020
Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Preface 1. ‘It was a rather rackety childhood in a way’ Cairo and Norfolk, 1910-1928 2. ‘Don’ t you understand, I’ve got to know!’ Somerville and Oxford, 1928-1932 3. ‘My years at Cambridge were rich with new discoveries’ J. D. Bernal and Cambridge, 1932-1934 4. ‘It’ll serve me absolutely right if the thing is all wrong’ Oxford, insulin and Thomas, 1934-1937 5. ‘Nobody could be indifferent to the search for the truth about proteins’ Proteins and pregnancy, 1938-1939 6. ‘All this penicillin racket you know…’ War and penicillin, 1939-1945 7. ‘The molecule that appears is very beautifully composed’ America, Russia and Vitamin B12, 1946-1960 8. ‘I seem to have spent much more of my life not solving structures than solving them’ The Nobel Prize and insulin, 1970-1969 9. ‘Born not for herself but for the world’ China, Africa, India, education and peace, 1959-1988 10 ‘Recently everything has become more hopeful’ Retirement and after, 1977-1994 Epilogue Acknowledgements Select bibliography and sources Notes A Note on the Author Index
Georgina Ferry is a freelance science writer and broadcaster. She was formerly a staff editor on New Scientist magazine, and a presenter on Science Now and other programmes for BBC Radio 3 and 4. In 1989 she won the Glaxo Science Writers' Prize for her radio series, Seven Ages of Health. Her work has been published in a number of national newspapers, including the Independent, the Guardian and the Daily Telegraph, and she is Science Editor of Oxford Today. She lives in Oxford with her husband and two sons.
Reviews for Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin: Patterns, Proteins and Peace: A Life in Science
Ferry has brilliantly captured the flavour of a century of science * New Scientist * This life of Hodgkin is in the top rank of scientific biographies, hooking the reader from the first page and keeping you absorbed to the end * Sunday Times * This agreeable and well-written biography is the first to bring Dorothy Hodgkin to a wider audience. It deserves great success * Times Literary Supplement *
