Google on Monday honored the memory of British chemist Dorothy
Hodgkin with a "crystal" doodle on what would have been her 104th
birthday.
On its homepage on May 12, the
Internet giant marked Hodgkin's birth anniversary with a doodle
depicting Hodgkins' work on X-ray crystallography.
An article on 3DCarShows.com
noted that the doodle is live on Google's homepages in Japan, Taiwan,
Philippines, Indonesia, India, Saudi Arabia, Kenya, South Africa,
Egypt, United Kingdom, Canada and the United States.
Hodgkin was born on May 12, 1910 in Cairo, Egypt, and was credited with
the development of protein crystallography, and received a Nobel Prize
in Chemistry in 1964 for it.
She was the second woman to receive the “Order of Merit” in 1965 after Florence Nightingale.
She was awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Science) from the University of Bath in 1978.
By using X-ray crystallography, Hodgkin determined the structures of cholesterol (1937), penicillin (1946) and vitamin B12 (1956), which earned her the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964. — Joel Locsin/TJD, GMA News
source: gmanetwork.com
