Protein Crystallography Woman
by Stephane Poirier
Title
Protein Crystallography Woman
Artist
Stephane Poirier
Medium
Digital Art - Digital
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Vorotrans art from sciences vorotrans images collection presenting a portrait of a woman. Radioimmunoassay Woman shows scientist Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin. Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin was a British chemist who developed protein crystallography, for which she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964.
She advanced the technique of X-ray crystallography, a method used to determine the three-dimensional structures of biomolecules. Among her most influential discoveries are the confirmation of the structure of penicillin as previously surmised by Edward Abraham and Ernst Boris Chain, and the structure of vitamin B12, for which she became the third woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
In 1969, after 35 years of work, Hodgkin was able to decipher the structure of insulin. X-ray crystallography became a widely used tool and was critical in later determining the structures of many biological molecules where knowledge of structure is critical to an understanding of function. She is regarded as one of the pioneer scientists in the field of X-ray crystallography studies of biomolecules.
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November 20th, 2017
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