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An Eye for Pattern: The Letters of Dorothy HodgkinAuthor: BBC Radio 4 Extra
An intimate portrait of Dorothy Hodgkin, the only British woman to win a Nobel Prize for science, for cracking the chemical structures of penicillin and vitamin B12. Language: en Genres: Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Technology Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Episode 5
Friday, 10 October, 2014
The correspondence of Dorothy Hodgkin (1910-1994) introduced by her biographer, Georgina Ferry. Later in life, Dorothy combined scientific research with actively campaigning for peace, travelling to China and Russia during the Cold War and later writing to her former student, Margaret Thatcher. On receiving the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1964, she said she hoped that, in future, a woman winning such a prize would not require any special comment as 'more use is made of the talents that women share equally with men'. Fifty years later her hope has still not been fulfilled. Dorothy Hodgkin remains the only British woman to have been awarded a Nobel Prize for science.Producer: Anna Buckley.
