Professor Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin OM FRS in interview with Sir Gordon Wolstenholme

(Interview 1)

Source: 10.24384/000157

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Introduction and family background.

Parental influence on life.

More about her mother.

Parents' early married life.

Moving to Beccles.

Scientific influences in schooling and growing up.

Deciding on Oxford and Somerville.

Interest in Chemistry.

History of x-ray crystallography.

Going to Cambridge.

Returning to Oxford and into the war years.

Closing remarks