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 Natur…

- Dorothy Hodgkin

I was captured for life by chemistry and by crystals.

- Dorothy Hodgkin

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 …

- Dorothy Hodgkin

I once wrote a lecture for Manchester University called « Moments of Discovery » in which I said that there are two moments that are important. There…

- Dorothy Hodgkin

I should not like to leave an impression that all structural problems can be settled by X-ray analysis or that all crystal structures are easy to sol…

- Dorothy Hodgkin

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 …

- Dorothy Hodgkin

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 Satu…

- Dorothy Hodgkin

The detailed geometry of the coenzyme molecule as a whole is fascinating in its complexity.

- Dorothy Hodgkin