Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

Born in Egypt, where her father was assigned, and studied in Oxford, where she initially combined archaeology and chemistry.

Later, she became crystallographer and remained in Cambridge Sommerville and Oxford during her career.

She studied the structure of penicillin and vitamin B12 in the 1940s, was a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1947 and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964 for the determination of the structures of important molecules by X-ray techniques.

Married and with three sons, she passed away on 1994.