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BIOGRAPHY

Science writer. Author of Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life; The Common Thread: A Story of Science, Politics, Ethics and the Human Genome (with John Sulston); A Computer Called LEO: Lyons Teashops and the World's First Office Computer; and Max Perutz and the Secret of Life.

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Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin was an English chemist whose determination of the structure of penicillin and vitamin B12 brought her the 1964 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Dorothy Crowfoot was the eldest of four sisters whose parents, John and Grace Mary Crowfoot, worked in North Africa and the Middle East in…
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Publications (4)
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (September 2014)
By Georgina Ferry
Dorothy Hodgkin (1910-1994) was renowned for her medically-important work on penicillin, vitamin B12 and insulin. Fully engaged with the political and social currents of her time, she participated in some of the greatest upheavals of the 20th century: women's education; the globalisation of science; the rise and fall of communism; and international peace movements. A wife, mother and grandmother, she cared deeply about the wellbeing of individuals in all cultures. Georgina Ferry's biography...
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Max Perutz and the Secret of Life
Max Perutz and the Secret of Life (July 2008)
By Georgina Ferry
This is the story of the father of molecular biology whose famous research team uncovered the structure of DNA. Georgina Ferry’s story brims with life, has the zest of an adventure novel and is full of fascinating characters.From the Hardcover edition.
A Computer Called Leo : Lyons Tea Shops and the World's First Office Computer
A Computer Called Leo : Lyons Tea Shops and the World's First Office Computer (2003)
By Georgina Ferry
This is the eccentric story of one of the most bizarre marriages in the history of British business: the invention of the world's first office computer and the Lyons tea shop. The Lyons tea shops were one of the great British institutions, providing a cup of tea and a penny bun through the depression, the war, austerity and on into the 1960s and 1970s. Yet Lyons also has a more surprising claim to history. In the 1930s John Simmons, a young graduate in charge of the clerks' offices that totalled...
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