If you’ve clicked the stylized Google logo today you’ll be led to the page of Dorothy Hodgkin, who was a British biochemist is credited with the development of protein crystallography!
For the confirmation of the structure of Vitamin B12, she even was awarded a Nobel Prize, becoming only the 3rd woman to receive one! He moved the techniques of X-Ray crystallography forward, even deciphering the structure of insulin.
When she was 18, already with a passion for Chemistry, she entered Somerville College, Oxford, which was at the time on of the few women’s colleges. She even studied for a PhD at Cambridge. She was also one of the first to travel from Oxford to Cambridge in April 1953 to view Watson and Crick’s model based on Franklin’s research!
She looks to be an astounding pioneer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Hodgkin
Wow, how inspiring! Thanks Charlotte!