Episode 8 - Dorothy Hodgkins: "Crystals and Chemistry"
The Silenced Women of STEM by Disha and Eva
Episode notes
Imagine waking up every morning with joints so swollen and painful that even buttoning a shirt feels impossible, yet you still choose to spend your day hunched over delicate instruments, determined to uncover mysteries in chemistry. This was the world of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, a woman who refused to be defined by pain or limited by the expectations of her time.
References:
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1964/hodgkin/biographical/
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dorothy-Hodgkin
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