Happy 106 birthday to Dorothy Hodgkin (1910-1994), mother of...

Happy 106 birthday to Dorothy Hodgkin (1910-1994), mother of...



Happy 106 birthday to Dorothy Hodgkin (1910-1994), mother of protein crystallography, and Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1964.

Image caption: A full 3D set of x-ray structure factors obtained by indexing individual diffraction patterns and summing intensities of indexed spots. This is akin to powder diffraction, where every grain is first oriented in 3D.

Source & Credit: Protein crystallography using x-ray free-electron lasers (SPIE). Figure courtesy of Thomas White, Center for Free-Electron Laser Science—CFEL—at DESY.)