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Nobody who lived through the first year or two of the trials of penicillin in Oxford could possibly not care about what it was. But also it's difficult not to enjoy just growing the crystals.
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One's tendency when one is young is to do experiments just to see what will happen, without really looking for specific things at all. I first set up a little laboratory in the attic at home just to grow crystals or try experiments described in books, such as adding a lot of concentrated sulfuric acid to the blood from a nosebleed which precipitates hemotin from the hemoglobin in the blood. That was quite a nice experiment. I still remember it.
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I'm really an experimentalist...I think with my hands. I just like manipulation. I began to like it as a child and it's continued to be a pleasure.
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A great advantage of X-ray analysis as a method of chemical structure analysis is its power to show some totally unexpected and surprising structure with, at the same time, complete certainty.
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Would it not be better if one could really 'see' whether molecules... were just as experiments suggested?
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I used to say the evening that I developed the first x-ray photograph I took of insulin in 1935 was the most exciting moment of my life. But the Saturday afternoon in late July 1969, when we realized that the insulin electron density map was interpretable, runs that moment very close.
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Still I had a lurking question. Would it not be better if one could really 'see' whether molecules as complicated as the sterols, or strychnine were just as experiment suggested?
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I first met the subject of X-ray diffraction of crystals in the pages of the book W. H. Bragg wrote for school children in 1925, Concerning the Nature of Things.
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The detailed geometry of the coenzyme molecule as a whole is fascinating in its complexity.
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Dorothy Hodgkin
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Born:
May 12, 1910
Died:
July 29, 1994
(aged 84)
Bio:
Dorothy Mary Hodgkin, known professionally as Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin or simply Dorothy Hodgkin, was a British biochemist who developed protein crystallography, for which she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964.
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