# Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (@dorothy-hodgkin)

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was a British chemist who advanced X-ray crystallography to determine the three-dimensional structures of complex biological molecules.

She solved structures including penicillin and vitamin B12 and led the decades-long determination of insulin. She received the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin's public record._

## Topics

- [Seeing Molecules With X-Rays](/@dorothy-hodgkin/seeing-molecules-with-x-rays.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Penicillin and Vitamin B12](/@dorothy-hodgkin/penicillin-and-vitamin-b12.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [The Long Insulin Project](/@dorothy-hodgkin/the-long-insulin-project.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/about-us/history-of-medical-sciences/our-history/women-in-oxford-medical-sciences/professor-dorothy-hodgkin
- blog: https://www.nobelprize.org/stories/women-who-changed-science/dorothy-hodgkin/
- blog: https://www.some.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Dorothy-Hodgkin-booklet.pdf

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "dorothy-hodgkin", "question": "…"}`.