Molecular model of penicillin by Dorothy M Crowfoot Hodgkin, England, 1945

Made:
1945 in England
maker:
Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin
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Molecular model of Penicillin by Dorothy Hodgkin, c.1945
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Molecular model of Penicillin by Dorothy Hodgkin, c.1945
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Molecular model of Penicillin by Dorothy Hodgkin, c.1945
Science Museum Group Collection
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Molecular model of Penicillin by Dorothy Hodgkin, c.1945
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Molecular model of Penicillin by Dorothy Hodgkin, c.1945
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Molecular model of Penicillin by Dorothy Hodgkin, c.1945
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Molecular model of Penicillin by Dorothy Hodgkin, c.1945
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Molecular model of Penicillin by Dorothy Hodgkin, c.1945
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Molecular model of Penicillin by Dorothy Hodgkin, c.1945
Science Museum Group Collection
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Molecular model of Penicillin by Dorothy Hodgkin, c.1945
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Molecular model of Penicillin by Dorothy Hodgkin, c.1945
Science Museum Group Collection
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Molecular model of Penicillin by Dorothy Hodgkin, c.1945
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London

Molecular model of Penicillin by Dorothy Hodgkin, c.1945
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London

Molecular model of Penicillin by Dorothy Hodgkin, c.1945
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London

Molecular model of Penicillin by Dorothy Hodgkin, c.1945
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Penicillin; molecular model by Dorothy Hodgkin, ca. 1945
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Penicillin; molecular model by Dorothy Hodgkin, ca. 1945
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Penicillin; molecular model by Dorothy Hodgkin, ca. 1945
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Penicillin; molecular model by Dorothy Hodgkin, ca. 1945
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Penicillin; molecular model by Dorothy Hodgkin, ca. 1945
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Penicillin; molecular model by Dorothy Hodgkin, ca. 1945.

Penicillin was successful as an antibiotic and treatment for infection well before scientists knew its chemical nature. Chemist and crystallographer Dorothy M Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994) used large punch-card operated tabulators, predecessor to the computer, to help analyse the patterns cast by reflected X-rays. This technique is known as X-ray crystallography.

Hodgkin later won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1964 “for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances”.

Details

Category:
Biochemistry
Object Number:
1996-686
Materials:
pine (wood), paper (fibre product), plastic (unidentified), paint, steel (metal) and wood (unidentified)
Measurements:
overall: 170 mm x 200 mm x 200 mm, .64 kg
type:
penicillin
credit:
Luke Hodgkin