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2.0a Twelve Women in Chemistry
Carolyn Bertozzi – Chemical Biologist
Bertozzi researches the role of sugars on the surface of cells in diseases such as cancer, and develops technology to advance biomedical research.
Ada Yonath – Crystallographer
Yonath’s research on the structure of the ribosome, which helps cells build proteins, won her a Nobel Prize. She also worked on modes of action of antibiotics.
Susan Solomon – Atmospheric Chemist
Solomon’s work helped confirm that chlorine-containing compounds deplete ozone, and explained why this depletion was focused over the Earth’s poles.
Paula Hammond – Chemical Engineer
Hammond’s research focuses on nanoscale polymers for drug delivery and other applications. She co-founded the MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnology.
Darleane Hoffman – Nuclear Chemist
Hoffman was one of the researchers who confirmed the existence of element 106, Seaborgium. She also captured and analysed elements heavier than uranium.
Carol Robinson – Physical Chemist
The first female chemistry professor at both Cambridge and Oxford University. Uses mass spectrometry to reveal the structure and reactivity of proteins.
Pratibha Gai – Materials Chemist
Gai co-invented a type of microscope that allows visualisation of reactions at the atomic scale. She chose not to patent it so it could be easily used by others.
Jacqueline Barton – Biophysical Chemist
Barton studies the chemical and physical properties of DNA and the role of charge transport chemistry in DNA repain. She has received numerous awards for her work.
Jennifer Doudna – Molecular Biochemist
Doudna was a leading figure in the development of CRISPR gene editing, a technology that could in the future lead to treatments for a range of diseases.
Tu Youyou – Pharmaceutical Chemist
Won a Nobel Prize for her discovery of artemisinin, a compound derived from the wormwood plant and used as a drug to treat malaria.
Lesley Yellowlees – Inorganic Chemist
The first female president of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Her research focuses on electron transfer reactions, solar energy and EPR spectroscopy.
Polly Arnold – Organometallic Chemist
Arnold’s research focuses on synthetic chemistry and theories of bonding and reactivity, with the ai, of understanding the behaviour of nuclear waste.
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10.1a This Day in Chemistry May 12 – Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin was born on May 12, 1910; died July 29, 1994. She’s most famous for being one of only four women to have won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and the only British woman to have done so. This graphic takes a look at the work that earned her the prize:
- Penicillin (1945): Hodgkin confirmed the structure of penicillin – the first time the structure of a whole molecule had been calculated using X-ray data.
- Vitamin B12 (1955): Vitamin B12 was, at the time, the most complex molecule tackled by X-ray crystallography. Its structure took Hodgkin eight years to solve.
- Insulin (1969): Hodgkin first grew crystals of insulin in 1935, but it was another 34 years before she determined its three-dimensional structure.
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