red blood cells.
The information also led to the treatment of Pernius Anemia.
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was born in Cairo, Egypt. She attended Oxford University and graduated in 1931. She began
working at Oxford University in 1931. She was the winner of the Nobel Prize of Chemistry in 1964 for recognizing
the intricate shape of the vitamin B 12. She also researched the molecular shape of penicillin, insulin, cholesterol,
iodine and others. All this information is important to the medical field. Her research on vitamin B 12 helped other
scientists study the way the body uses the vitamin to make red blood cells.
The information also led to the treatment of Pernius Anemia.
She also used X-ray diffraction. She made the first X-ray diffraction photograph of protein pepsin in 1934 at Cambridge with a classmate. The purpose of X-ray diffraction is to study the patterns X-ray beams make in the crystals of a substance. First X-rays are focused on the crystal. The molecules of the substance arrange themselves in a repeating pattern and the X-rays bend according to the pattern.
