About this episode

This episode discusses Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin's career and contributions to X-ray crystallography after her education at Oxford.

After earning her first-class degree in chemistry from Oxford, Dorothy embarked on an impressive career in the new field of X-ray crystallography. She would ultimately earn many, many accolades for her work.

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