Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin by Georgina Ferry

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin by Georgina Ferry

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Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin by Georgina Ferry

Dorothy Hodgkin (1910-1994) was renowned for her medically-important work on penicillin, vitamin B12 and insulin. Fully engaged with the political and social currents of her time, she participated in some of the greatest upheavals of the 20th century: women’s education; the globalisation of science; the rise and fall of communism; and international peace movements. A wife, mother and grandmother, she cared deeply about the wellbeing of individuals in all cultures. Georgina Ferry’s biography of the only British female scientist to receive the Nobel Prize – Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life – was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize and the Marsh Biography Award. Bloomsbury Reader 2014 edition is reissued with a new preface.
Georgina Ferry is a freelance science writer and broadcaster. She was formerly a staff editor on New Scientist magazine, and a presenter on Science Now and other programmes for BBC Radio 3 and 4. In 1989 she won the Glaxo Science Writers’ Prize for her radio series, Seven Ages of Health. Her work has been published in a number of national newspapers, including the Independent, the Guardian and the Daily Telegraph, and she is Science Editor of Oxford Today. She lives in Oxford with her husband and two sons.
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ISBN 13 9781448211715
ISBN 10 1448211719
Title Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Author Georgina Ferry
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published 2014-09-11
Number of pages 555
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