Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life Book

Preface

1. 'It was a rather rackety childhood in a way'
Cairo and Norfolk, 1910-1928

2. 'Don't you understand, I've got to know!'
Somerville and Oxford, 1928-1932

3. 'My years at Cambridge were rich with new discoveries' J.D. Bernal and Cambridge, 1932-1934

4. 'It'll serve me absolutely right if the thing is all wrong'
Oxford, insulin and Thomas, 1934-1937

5. 'Nobody could be indifferent to the search for the truth about proteins'
Proteins and pregnancy, 1938-1939

6. 'All this penicillin racket you know '
War and penicillin, 1939-1945

7. 'The molecule that appears is very beautifully composed'
America, Russian and Vitamin B12, 1946-1960

8. 'I seem to have spent much more of my life not solving structures than solving them'
The Nobel prize and insulin, 1960-1969

9. 'Born not for herself but for the world'
China, Africa, India, education and peace, 1959-1988

10. 'Recently everything has become more hopeful'
Retirement and after, 1977-1994

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Notes

Index