*Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize and the Marsh Biography Award* 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.
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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
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Ferry has brilliantly captured the flavour of a century of science
Definitive biography of chemist Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, the only British woman to win a Nobel prize in the sciences to date
This is the only, and therefore the definitive, biography of Dorothy Hodgkin

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781448217601
Publisert
2019-10-03
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Reader
Vekt
420 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
560

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Biographical note

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.