Dorothy Hodgkin : a life
1998, First Edition. London : Granta. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #476105
ISBN: 1862071675
Physical description; viii, 423 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm. Notes; Provenance: Donated to the library in memory of Rosamund Sutherland. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; 'It was a rather rackety childhood in a way': Cairo and Norfolk, 1910-1928 – 'Don't you understand, I've got to know!': Somerville and Oxford, 1928-1932 – 'My years at Cambridge were rich with new discoveries': J. D. Bernal and Cambridge, 1932-1934 – 'It'll serve me absolutely right if the thing is all wrong': Oxford, insulin and Thomas, 1934-1937 – 'Nobody could be indifferent to the search for the truth about proteins': Proteins and pregnancy, 1938-1939 – 'All this penicillin racket you know ...': War and penicillin, 1939-1945 – 'The molecule that appears is very beautifully composed': America, Russia and Vitamin B12, 1946-1960 – 'I seem to have spent much more of my life not solving structures than solving them': The Nobel prize and insulin, 1960-1969 – 'Born not for herself but for the world': China, Africa, India, education and peace, 1959-1988 – 'Recently everything has become more hopeful': Retirement and after, 1977-1994. Subjects; Hodgkin, Dorothy (1910-1994) – Biography. Crystallographers – Great Britain – Biography. Women scientists – Great Britain – Biography. Scientists – Great Britain – Biography. Crystallography – History. Insulin. Penicillin. Vitamin B12. Nobel Prize winners.
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