Jennifer DuBois: Though she was the first woman on the Oxford University faculty to be given maternity leave, there was more to Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin’s career than simply combining parenthood and science
Jennifer DuBois, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Montana State University-Bozeman, made the following post on LinkedIn:
“When Prof Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin won the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the British press described her as a “British wife” or a “housewife” from Oxford. The headline in the NY Times called her a “grandmother.” Though she was the first woman on the Oxford University faculty to be given maternity leave, there was more to Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin’s career than simply combining parenthood and science. She was the first to solve the crystal structures of penicillin and vitamin B12. In 1969, she realized a lifelong pursuit with the publication of the first X-ray crystal structure of insulin. Happy women’s history month!”
Source: Jennifer DuBois/LinkedIn
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