Frasi di Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin è stata una biochimica e cristallografa britannica, pioniera nella tecnica di diffrazione dei raggi X e vincitrice del premio Nobel per la chimica nel 1964, «per la determinazione delle strutture di importanti sostanze biochimiche tramite l'uso di tecniche legate ai raggi X». Wikipedia  

✵ 12. Maggio 1910 – 29. Luglio 1994
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“Would it not be better if one could really 'see' whether molecules…were just as experiments suggested?”

the question that decided her to specialize in X-ray cristallography, as quoted by [Sharon Bertsch McGrayne, Nobel Prize women in science: their lives, struggles, and momentous discoveries, Joseph Henry Press, 1998, http://books.google.com/books?id=-PqK3zxkRrIC&pg=PA231, 0-309-07270-0, 231]

“There's the moment when you know you can find out the answer and that's the period you are sleepless before you know what it is. When you've got it and know what it is, then you can rest easy.”

interviewed by
Contesto: 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's the moment when you know you can find out the answer and that's the period you are sleepless before you know what it is. When you've got it and know what it is, then you can rest easy.

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