The other day, I noticed that the Google homepage was well decorated with some sort of biomolecule. But upon closer inspection, once can note the faint diffraction signals outlined by small figures behind the elements of the molecule. Once I realized this, I knew that Google was honoring x-ray crystallography.
However, I did not realize that Dorothy Hodgkin was a pioneer of the field of X-ray crystallography. The technique was founded about 100 years ago and it revolutionized our understanding of the molecular the structure. She was only the third woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her discovery of the structure of vitamin B12 in 1964. She was also know for her contribution to the discovery of the structure of insulin and penicillin.
So there you have it! Women are pioneering biochemistry and paving the way for those to come!