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An Eye for Pattern: The Letters of Dorothy Hodgkin

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In the 1940s, Dorothy made more scientific strides even with a baby.

In the 1940s, Dorothy made more scientific strides even with a baby, prompting the college to award maternity pay. From October 2014.

The correspondence of Nobel Prize winning scientist, Dorothy Hodgkin (1910-1994), introduced by her biographer, Georgina Ferry. 

In the 1940s, Dorothy worked on the structure of a new medicine with a miraculous reputation, penicillin: making her first big breakthrough while breastfeeding her daughter Liz and with her peripatetic husband, Thomas, living and working away from home. Somerville College invented maternity pay for her, a benefit which Dorothy accepted rather reluctantly. As ever, her mother urged her to go gently but, inspired by her discoveries, Dorothy worked harder than ever. 

Producer: Anna Buckley.

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A portrait of Dorothy Hodgkin, the only female British scientist to win a Nobel Prize.

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.

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