Dorothy Hodgkins, nobelized and doodled :)
Dorothy Hodgkin photographed in 1947, the year she was elected to the Royal Society. Photograph: Godfrey Argent Studio, used with permission 2014 has been declared the International Year of Crystallography by Unesco (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation). It marks the centenary of the award of the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physics to Max von Laue , swiftly followed the next year by a further Nobel Prize in Physics for the work done by father-and-son team William Henry and William Lawrence (known as Lawrence) Bragg. These two prizes were key staging points in the development of x-ray crystallography, a technique that has done so much to unravel the structure of matter at the atomic level. Exactly 50 years after the award of the prize to von Laue, Dorothy Hodgkin won the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work in establishing the structures of the vitamin B12 and penicillin, also via x-ray crystallography. During t...