An Eye for Pattern: The Letters of Dorothy Hodgkin Podcast
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.
Episodes to download
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Episode 5
Fri 10 Oct 2014
5/5 Dorothy becomes the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1964.
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Episode 4
Thu 9 Oct 2014
4/5 Dorothy's reputation grew post-war, conquering the structure of penicillin.
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Episode 2
Tue 7 Oct 2014
2/5 Dorothy Hodgkin and her lover wrestle with the internal structure of complex molecules.
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Episode 1
Mon 6 Oct 2014
1/5 A portrait of Dorothy Hodgkin, the only female British scientist to win a Nobel Prize.
