Talk:Dorothy Hodgkin

message: I thought she was known as Dorothy Hodgkin - did she use the name "Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin"? DavidFarmbrough (talk) 11:44, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name? 

message: The following link needs to be updated because Peoples Archive has now been moved to a new website called Web of Stories:
* The People's Archive interview [1]
The correct link to the Web of Stories website (http://webofstories.com) should be:
* Dorothy Hodgkin video at Web of Stories
Fitzrovia calling (talk) 09:46, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links 

message: Cholesteryl iodide is in the class of compounds known as cholesterols, right? It seems odd to call it a 'cholesteryl'... the compound class should be changed to 'cholesterol', unless I'm wrong here. 
Nessa Carson (talk) 00:32, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Cholesteryl Iodide

message: Indeed, ClueBot is quite right that the previous edit was pure vandalism - one appreciates the speed and accuracy of diagnosis.  It could be claimed, though, that this paragraph may need a little toning down of the superlatives.  Dcrjsr (talk) 03:01, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revert of vandalism 

message: "Hodgkin published as Dorothy Crowfoot until 1949, when she was persuaded by Hans Clarke’s secretary to use her married name on her chapter in The Chemistry of Penicillin. Thereafter she always published as Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin." (Georgina Ferry, biographer of Dorothy Hodgkin.)
2.27.131.70 (talk) 00:22, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nomenclature 

message: Added a citation needed after the phrase "She always consulted him concerning important problems and decisions." Onesong (talk) 13:26, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations 

message: I've never heard of "cardiac stroke". The reference says she died of a stroke. So "cardiac" should be removed.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.165.159.230 (talk) 14:15, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cause of death? 

message: I'm trying to understand the significance of the following passage in the current revision:
  According to the late Dr. Beryl Oughton, later Rimmer, they all travelled together 
  in two cars [emphasis mine] once Dorothy Hodgkin announced to them that they 
  were off to Cambridge to see the model of the structure of DNA.
Is there some special significance to the two cars? Since there is no citation, it's hard to figure it out.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.103.35.18 (talk) 18:02, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Six years on, I got the same hiccup. What is this about? Valetude (talk) 21:42, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Traveled together in two cars? 

message: This sentence is currently in the section about her social life:  She always consulted him concerning important problems and decisions.
I find it incredibly sexist.  Would it be in there if she were male instead? 
Furthermore it's wrong -- did she talk with him about her affairs with Sage?  I doubt it. 
My advice is delete it.
JimFoit (talk) 18:37, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: NOTCENSORED means that content isn't deleted just because you find it sexist.  IJUSTDONTLIKEIT means that content won't be deleted just because you don't like it either. —  (t • e • c) 20:05, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 12 May 2014 

message: 173.79.225.20 (talk) 22:52, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 12 May 2014 

message: ADD:
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2.27.146.89 (talk) 10:28, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Find-A-Grave

message: I would like to propose that in her “education and research” section she developed a passion for archaeology from her dad and chemistry from a family friend which lead her to attend courses about crystallography to where she began her research1. She studied glass tesserae which involved analyzing small pieces used in mosaics which made her a perfect fit to analyze x-ray crystallography because she analyzed the small dimensions produced from the crystals. Also something that stood out to me as a WGS scholar was the fact that she was given a scholarship from Somerville College to do research for them1. Most women were not offered scholarships because they were given men and I feel like this would add to divert the stereotype against women in STEM fields. These small contributions can add to her educational background as a representative for women in the sciences.
 
 "Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin - Biographical." Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin - Biographical. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Oct. 2014. 
Kfitzp04 (talk) 21:10, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: contribution

message: I believe there should be a mention of her mentoring other biochemistry students She played a very important part in the mentoring of Margaret Thatcher. A very important part of her scientific career was placed in her mentorship of others, her way of extending the research she devoted her life to. Another thing that is lacking is more information on her early life. The 6 sentences given don’t give an inside look into her life. For example, why did she choose chemistry? It states that her mother had an impact in her decision to study chemistry but doesn’t explain why or how. As a biochemist myself, why she decided to become a biochemist is something that is very intriguing.  For example, the Nobel Prize Website states that her interest in chemistry was expanded by a family friend, Dr. A. F. Joseph, who provided chemicals for her to work with at the age of ten. She was also allowed to participate in chemistry lessons with the boys at school, something that was not very common in the 1920s. (Nobel Prize)
It may also be worth noting that she started her educational career studying both chemistry and archaeology, like her father, but her childhood love of chemistry took over when she began her research.
"Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin - Biographical". Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014. Web. 19 Oct 2014. <http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1964/hodgkin-bio.html>
Albrch (talk) 04:03, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Her mentoring and lack of information 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I have removed the Category "British Marxist".
Dorothy was radical in her views, but never a member of the Communist Party and did not adopt Marxism as a valid interpretation of social issues, or a convincing prognosis of social development. For her the pre-eminent values were internationalism, especially concerning the natural sciences and cooperation across borders, and work to reduce conflict between nations and the risk of thermonuclear war.
John Crowfoot (talk) 18:16, 1 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  No Marxist 

message: "As a consequence of the war Molly lost all her four brothers  ...".
There is no other mention of brothers in this article.  Neither the Wikipedia page about her mother or the one about her father mention any sons.
If there were four brothers, who died "as a consequence of the war", these four men would presumably have been of fighting age, and thus considerably older than their four sisters, who were infants at the time of the war.  This might be plausible, if they were half brothers from one or other parents' earlier relationship, but there is no mention of any such thing in either article about Dorothy's father or mother.
So, what's the story about the brothers?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.64.142.162 (talk) 23:00, 21 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brothers? 

message: One of the first things that struck Margaret Roberts when she joined Dorothy Hodgkin's lab was its refreshing informality. Its distinguished head asked all the students whom she taught to call her by her first name.
This principle has now been extended to the Wikipedia page about her.
To call her by her surname "Hodgkin" sounds unbearably pompous, however appropriate it may be for other figures of equivalent stature. A look at Dorothy dressed formally as Chancellor of Bristol University is clear confirmation of this distinction.
This also does a little to overcome the discrepancy between the scientist known to the academic community as Dorothy Crowfoot (1937-1949) and then Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1949-1964) and the public figure Dorothy Hodgkin of her later years. 
That is not what is important here, however. It is the very style and character of the quiet-spoken individual behind all these activities.
John Crowfoot (talk) 06:12, 22 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Call me Dorothy" 

message: The information in this section is available in the Wiki pages for Dorothy's father and mother; it can also be found in Georgina Ferry's comprehensive biography of my aunt. GF also wrote the entry for Dorothy in the latest edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
When time allows I shall provide in-lin citations for the statements made here.
If anyone is again confused about brothers, sons and names, my mother was Dorothy's younger sister Elisabeth - with an s, not a z - and she, unlike Dorothy, "kept her maiden name".
John Crowfoot (talk) 06:09, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early life, 1910-1928 - providing in-lin citations and sources 

message: In 2019 I agreed to post notice, on the Talk page of any article, my intention to edit, if those edits were potentially numerous. This is such a notice. I also agreed to restrict edits to roughly 10 per day in order to give those who have contributed to the article in the past such as John Crowfoot, the opportunity to review my edits, and revert those with which they disagreed. My request is that they follow the BRD principle, and revert any of my edits one at a time, not wholesale as a group; and with an explicit explanation (something other than "Disruptive edit", "Not helpful", or "Not an improvement"). If I disagree with the reversion, then I can take the edit to this Talk page and discuss it with the objector in a respectful manner; and others can join in if they wish. I have begun. Regards, IiKkEe (talk) 09:24, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  New edits 

message: — Assignment last updated by Yonderling (talk) 00:44, 16 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm sorry, but these edits of yours would appear to cause more harm than good. Much of it reads like opinion, and a lot is unsourced: particularly the quotes, see WP:V which states . There is poor writing, and apart from that, misspelling the name of the subject no less than four times is a red flag for me. I shall drop a note at the talk pages of some relevant WikiProjects. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:16, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: General Chemistry I

message: This strikes me as inaccurate and more than a little bizarre. I won't bore you with the definition of "alias" but it is certainly inapplicable here. "Preferred names" would be rather closer to the truth.
My aunt Dorothy and her husband Thomas Hodgkin had NO problem with her describing herself as Dorothy Crowfoot. Twelve years after they married and all three of my cousins were born Dorothy accepted the proposal that she henceforth add Hodgkin to her  name but mildly insisted that she be referred to as "Crowfoot Hodgkin" (no hyphen) because all her earlier scientific publications appeared under her 'maiden' name.
Over the last few years the name that Dorothy herself preferred has been increasingly used, its latest expression being the naming of the entire biochemistry building in her honour.
Wikipedia seems to be curiously unenlightened in this respect and cannot cope, apparently, with the name changes that women do or do not adopt, despite their having become well-known under their original or, as we quaintly say, 'maiden name'.
John Rustat Crowfoot (b. 1952), contributing this as Rustat99 (talk) 08:28, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aliases?! 

message: — Assignment last updated by MatthewGuareschi (talk) 21:49, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Cell Biology Honors