Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin

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A British chemist who won the Nobel Prize and used X-rays to find the shapes of molecules in living things

proper noun

: Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin

Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964 for her work on the structure of important biochemical substances.

Examples

The pioneering research of Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin advanced our understanding of insulin and vitamin B12.
Many scientists were inspired by the achievements of Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin in the field of crystallography.
Did you know Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin?
What a remarkable scientist Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin was!
Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964 for her work on the structure of important biochemical substances.
Many scientists were inspired by the achievements of Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin in the field of crystallography.
The pioneering research of Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin advanced our understanding of insulin and vitamin B12.

Synonyms

Dorothy Hodgkin

vsDorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin

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A British chemist who used X-rays to find the shape of medicines like penicillin and vitamin B12

focuses on pioneering the method and broader organic structures rather than named discoveries

Surface Forms

Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin main

Morphology

Dorothy + Mary + Crowfoot + Hodgkin

This string is a personal name (a sequence of proper nouns) rather than a compositional phrase; the occupation, dates, and achievements (English chemist, Nobel laureate) cannot be inferred from the individual name parts. Proper names function as arbitrary labels across languages, so a B1 learner who only knows the constituent names would not be able to derive the MWE's meaning or biographical information.

Etymology

Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin was an English chemist who used X-rays like a camera to 'photograph' the shapes of molecules inside crystals. By 'seeing' these shapes she worked out important structures such as penicillin and vitamin B12 and won the Nobel Prize, which is why her name is remembered.