Editing Dorothy Hodgkin (section)

==Higher education==
In 1928 at age 18 Hodgkin entered [[Somerville College, Oxford]], where she studied chemistry.<ref name="ferry19993"/> She graduated in 1932 with a first-class honours degree, the third woman at this institution to achieve this distinction.<ref name="Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography2">{{cite web |title=Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot |url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Dorothy_Mary_Crowfoot_Hodgkin.aspx |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151014115213/http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Dorothy_Mary_Crowfoot_Hodgkin.aspx |archive-date=14 October 2015 |access-date=3 November 2015 |website=Encyclopedia.com |publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons}}</ref>
[[File:Professor Dorothy Hodgkin.jpg|thumb|247x247px|Dorothy Hodgkin as Chancellor of the University of Bristol]]
In the autumn of that year, she began studying for a [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]] at [[Newnham College, Cambridge]], under the supervision of [[John Desmond Bernal]].<ref name="rsbm19802">{{cite journal |last1=Hodgkin |first1=Dorothy Mary Crowfoot |author-link=Dorothy Hodgkin |year=1980 |title=John Desmond Bernal. 10 May 1901 – 15 September 1971 |journal=[[Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society]] |volume=26 |pages=16–84 |doi=10.1098/rsbm.1980.0002 |doi-access= |title-link=John Desmond Bernal|s2cid=72287250 }}</ref> It was then that she became aware of the potential of X-ray crystallography to determine the structure of [[protein]]s. She was working with Bernal on the technique's first application to the analysis of a biological substance, [[pepsin]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, OM |url=http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/hodgkin.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112214431/http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/hodgkin.html |archive-date=12 January 2012 |access-date=2012-01-13}}</ref> The pepsin experiment is largely credited to Hodgkin, however she always made it clear that it was Bernal who initially took the photographs and gave her additional key insights.<ref name="frs3">{{cite journal |last1=Dodson |first1=Guy |author-link=Guy Dodson |year=2002 |title=Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin, O.M. 12 May 1910 – 29 July 1994 |journal=[[Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society]] |volume=48 |pages=179–219 |doi=10.1098/rsbm.2002.0011 |issn=0080-4606 |pmid=13678070 |s2cid=61764553}} {{free access}}</ref> Her PhD was awarded in 1937 for research on X-ray crystallography and the chemistry of  [[sterol]]s.<ref name="dphd2">{{cite thesis |degree=PhD |url=http://ulmss-newton.lib.cam.ac.uk/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=35884 |title=X-ray crystallography and the chemistry of the sterols |first=Dorothy Mary Crowfoot |last=Hodgkin |website=lib.cam.ac.uk |publisher=University of Cambridge |year=1937 |id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.727110}} |access-date=24 November 2017 |archive-date=13 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180613085029/https://ulmss-newton.lib.cam.ac.uk/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=35884 |url-status=live}}</ref>