Dorothy Hodgkin Memorial Lecture

Tuesday, 9 March 2010 5:00pm

Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford. Free

Lecturer: Professor Elspeth Garman, President, British Crystallographic Association. Professor of Molecular Biophysics, University of Oxford.

Dorothy Hodgkin was born 100 years ago and the methods of crystallography she used to determine the 3-D shapes of cholesterol, penicillin, vitamin B12 and insulin, have developed enormously in a century. The structures of large molecules and assemblies such as the ribosome and whole viruses can be now found. The art of crystallography then, as compared to now, will be described and illustrated, with recent examples.

Part of the Oxford International Women’s Festival