Professor Dorothy Hodgkin wins Nobel Prize
Reuters photograph titled 'Oxford woman wins Nobel Chemistry Prize'. Original caption reads: Professor Dorothy Crowfott-Hodgkin of Somerville College, Oxford (pictured here), has won the 1964 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for 'her feterminations by x-ray techniques of the structures of important bio-chemical substances.' Professor Crawfoot-Hodgkin, a 54-year-old married woman with two sons and a daughter, is only the third woman to win the Chemistry prize in its 63-year history. The others were Madame Marie Curie (1911) and her daughter Irene Joliot-Curie (1935).
Details
- Category:
- Photographs
- Collection:
- Daily Herald Archive
- Object Number:
- 1983-5236/18346
- Materials:
- paper (fibre product) and ink
- Measurements:
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overall: 252 mm x 205 mm
- type:
- photograph
- credit:
- Daily Herald Archive; National Science and Media Museum, Bradford
