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Portrait or photograph of Dorothy Hodgkin: Lara Lalemi, a Chemistry PhD student, talks about the achievements of Professor Dorothy Hodgkin (1910 - 1994), the fi

Virtual Memorial

Dorothy Hodgkin

A Memory Realm virtual memorial place honoring Dorothy Hodgkin, remembered for Chemistry, X-ray crystallography, Nobel Prize.

1910 - 1994Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Portrait or photograph of Dorothy Hodgkin: Lara Lalemi, a Chemistry PhD student, talks about the achievements of Professor Dorothy Hodgkin (1910 - 1994), the fi
Lara Lalemi, a Chemistry PhD student, talks about the achievements of Professor Dorothy Hodgkin (1910 - 1994), the first British woman to win a Nobel Prize and former Chancellor of University of Bristol, https://www.flickr.com/photos/bristoluniversity/45949493842/, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Why Dorothy Hodgkin Is Remembered

Dorothy Hodgkin is remembered for chemistry, x-ray crystallography, nobel prize. This public memorial page gives visitors a concise starting point for understanding why the figure remains part of cultural, civic, scientific, or literary memory.

The page is designed as an accessible introduction rather than an exhaustive biography, with source links and image credits kept visible for further reading.

A Virtual Memorial in Memory Realm

This Memory Realm memorial hall turns a map reference into a virtual place for discovery. Visitors can move from the public page to the map and then into a 3D memorial hall connected to Dorothy Hodgkin.

The place is part of Memory Realm's virtual layer. It is not a physical marker and does not claim rights, control, access, endorsement, or affiliation connected to a real-world site.

Place Context

Oxford, England, United Kingdom is used as a broad spatial reference for this memorial because it is connected to Dorothy Hodgkin's life, work, memory, or public legacy. The location is intentionally city-level or region-level so the page can provide orientation without implying a claim over a specific property or institution.

Historical Context

Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin was an English chemist who advanced the technique of X-ray crystallography to determine the structure of biomolecules, which became essential for structural biology. She received the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and is the only British woman scientist to have been awarded a Nobel Prize.

Memory Realm presents this context for educational discovery and remembrance, with public source links and media attribution preserved alongside the page content.

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Portrait or photograph of Dorothy Hodgkin: Dorothy Hodgkin Building The new D block in the department of chemistry. This block has been named after Dorothy Hodg

Dorothy Hodgkin Building The new D block in the department of chemistry. This block has been named after Dorothy Hodgkin, a pioneer in the use of X-ray crystallography. She was awa

DS Pugh, From geograph.org.uk, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Portrait or photograph of Dorothy Hodgkin: Photograph by Willy Pragher

Photograph by Willy Pragher

Willy Pragher, Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Abt. Staatsarchiv Freiburg, W 134 Nr. 125220, CC BY 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons

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Portrait or photograph of Dorothy Hodgkin: Photograph by Willy Pragher

Photograph by Willy Pragher

Willy Pragher, Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Abt. Staatsarchiv Freiburg, W 134 Nr. 120813b, CC BY 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons

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