Georgina Ferry

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (eBook, ePUB)

Patterns, Proteins and Peace: A Life in Science

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

*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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781448214549
• Artikelnr.: 41349413

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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