- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Dorothy Hodgkin
- Provenance
- Presented by Somerville College in 1995, per Miss Pauline Adams, Librarian. Belonged to the late Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, O.M. (1910 - 1994).
- Dimensions
- Height: 203mm Width: 206mm Depth: 80mm
- Inventory No
- 15270
- Accession Number
- 1995-26
Description
Collection of crystalline chemicals in 75 sealed glass phials and ampoules, each one labelled in manuscript, in various small card boxes together in a cardboard box labelled 'Sterols'.
Sterols were one of Dorothy Hodgkin's first research projects, conducted at Cambridge under J. D. Bernal in 1932-34, pioneering the techniques of elucidating molecular structure by means of X-ray crystallography, prior to her famous work in Oxford on penicillin, vitamin B12, and insulin.
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